[OpenLayers-Dev] Vector drawing
Paul Spencer
pspencer at dmsolutions.ca
Thu Oct 26 21:30:55 EDT 2006
doesn't work in safari, my first (and only) test.
Paul
On 26-Oct-06, at 4:32 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
> Thanks for that email.
> I'm not on the users list, so missed this message.
>
> A vector rendering library like the dojo one is exactly what we should
> be using.
>
> What issues do we face incorporating Dojo into OpenLayers?
> Is the Licence ok (they use the Artistic)?
>
> Is it technically the right think to do. OpenLayers uses prototype for
> AJAX support. Will that be compatable with Dojo?
>
> Ed Dowding wrote:
>> That's beautiful vector work. I'm copying this to the dev list for
>> reference
>>
>>
>>
>>> 2. I noticed mentions of a vector graphics layer for openlayers. A
>>> project called dojo recently added vector graphic support in the 0.4
>>> release, plus a local data store cache, and documentation tools
>>> (both
>>> of which I also saw mentioned in your Trac logs). So I was wondering
>>> if the openlayers team had seen or considered the dojo library?
>>
>>
>> http://archive.dojotoolkit.org/nightly/demos/gfx/circles.html
>> http://archive.dojotoolkit.org/nightly/demos/gfx/clock.html
>>
>> http://www.mxgraph.com/demo/mxgraph-web/web/mxWorkflow-Demo.html
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Ed
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: users-bounces at openlayers.org [mailto:users-
>> bounces at openlayers.org] On
>> Behalf Of Chris Holmes
>> Sent: 26 October 2006 16:15
>> To: Alan Borden
>> Cc: users at openlayers.org
>> Subject: Re: [OpenLayers-Users] two newbie questions
>>
>>
>>
>>> 2. I noticed mentions of a vector graphics layer for openlayers. A
>>> project called dojo recently added vector graphic support in the 0.4
>>> release, plus a local data store cache, and documentation tools
>>> (both
>>> of which I also saw mentioned in your Trac logs). So I was wondering
>>> if the openlayers team had seen or considered the dojo library?
>>
>>
>>> http://archive.dojotoolkit.org/nightly/demos/gfx/circles.html
>>
>>> And here's one with a clock where you can click on the hands and
>>> drag >
>> them around:
>>> http://archive.dojotoolkit.org/nightly/demos/gfx/clock.html
>>> Which means it should be possible, given some effort, to make
>>> more >
>> sophisticated drawing tools, like this one:
>>> http://www.mxgraph.com/demo/mxgraph-web/web/mxWorkflow-Demo.html
>>
>> Wow, I was just going to ask this as well. Have recently been in
>> touch with
>> some of the dojo people, specifically the http://openrecord.org
>> people. We
>> were chatting about integrating GIS functionality in to it - they
>> have a
>> number of ways to display data through charts, and on a map would
>> make a lot
>> of sense. OpenLayers is an obvious choice for that as both are pure
>> javascript.
>>
>> Their vector support looks quite nice:
>>
>>> The new Dojo 0.4 release includes a dojo.gfx 2D vector > graphics
>> library, which renders natively to browsers as SVG or VML >
>> (which means it
>> supports both Firefox and IE, as well as others).
>>> Having the new dojo.gfx library should make it fairly easy to
>>> write a >
>> tool that would let a user draw lines and shapes on top of a map,
>> and >
>> then pan and zoom those drawings whenever the user pans and zooms
>> the >
>> map itself.
>>>
>>> Here's a simple dojo.gfx demo where you can click on the some
>>> circles >
>> and drag them around:
>>> http://archive.dojotoolkit.org/nightly/demos/gfx/circles.html
>>> And here's one with a clock where you can click on the hands and
>>> drag >
>> them around:
>>> http://archive.dojotoolkit.org/nightly/demos/gfx/clock.html
>>> Which means it should be possible, given some effort, to make
>>> more >
>> sophisticated drawing tools, like this one:
>>> http://www.mxgraph.com/demo/mxgraph-web/web/mxWorkflow-Demo.html
>>
>>
>> best regards,
>>
>> Chris
>>
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