dbox: Is it still being actively maintained?

[Steve Lime]

It's not dead, plus with the source you could do whatever. The only useful thing
I added was a toolbar class (see http://preview.dnr.state.mn.us/maps/landview.html).

There are lots of other options. pMapper is quite nice, as is Chameleon (not sure where
that is with development anymore) but they may be overkill for just a rubber-band box. Then
there's the new GeoMoose app, again a full featured framework. OpenLayers is wonderful
and if you can live with fixed scales then that's a great choice. I'm using it more and more
myself. 

On the plus side, dBox is nice and self-contained, is MapServer specific and does the rubber
band zoom very well. It's actually a reasonable transition from dBox to OpenLayers so it's
not a total dead end. Anyway the URL above shows it off, check out the mapper.js referenced
in the source for an implementation example.

Steve

>>> Matthew Pettis <matthew.pettis at GMAIL.COM> 01/09/08 6:07 PM >>>
Uff da... since I haven't used it yet, I'd be loathe to make you package
something for me that I haven't decided to use... I was just curious if it
was actively developed so as to figure out if it was worth investing time
into playing with it, or if it was dead.  If your updates don't change any
of the core functionality or way it gets implemented with MapServer, I'd say
I don't need a release -- I can just try out the old one and see if it even
fits my needs.

You've dealt with this, jBox, and OpenLayers -- in your opinion, which would
you use if the main functionality you want is zooming via rubberbanding?  Or
is there some app I'm missing in my consideration list?

thanks,
matt

On Jan 9, 2008 3:19 PM, Steve Lime <Steve.Lime at dnr.state.mn.us> wrote:

> Yup, I'm just too lazy to cut another release. I can tar up my most recent
> development
> version if you'd like.
>
> Steve
>
> >>> Matthew Pettis <matthew.pettis at GMAIL.COM> 01/08/08 7:46 PM >>>
> Hi,
>
> is dBox still being actively maintained?  Or is it being replaced by
> OpenLayers or something else?  The last date I see with updates on the
> page
> is sometime in 2006.
>
> I'm just looking for tools to facilitate rubberband zooming and such.
>
> thanks,
> matt
>
> --
> It is from the wellspring of our despair and the places that we are broken
> that we come to repair the world.
> -- Murray Waas
>
>


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