Smooth panning with Dbox?

Steve Lime Steve.Lime at DNR.STATE.MN.US
Mon Mar 12 13:09:37 PDT 2007


I know how ka-map (or Google) does it but I didn't know ROSA did it. That would be the approach
to emulate.  You're treading beyond the niche I originally envisioned for that application. Should 
look at OpenLayers too it may support smooth panning with untiled sources.

Steve

>>> On 3/12/2007 at 2:31 PM, in message <45F5AA81.4040401 at columbus.rr.com>, "Jason
R. Moore" <bigj at COLUMBUS.RR.COM> wrote:
> I was wandering does any one know of an easy way of doing smooth panning 
> with Dbox?  ( i.e. like google map or Roza?)  I have tried rendering a 
> map image larger than the map display area and then clip the Dhtml 
> layer  to the display box of a table.  Then for panning I move the image 
> in the Dbox onDrag function.  When doing this the image threw around the 
> edges and some times it does not get clipped at all rather it becomes 
> the background image for the page.    This also requires generating 
> images ~9 times larger than needed. Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks
> Jason



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