[OpenLayers-Dev] Setting Zoom bounds

[Chip Taylor]

I am new to OpenLayers and am attempting to use it to integrate Mapserver
WMS into a Dot.Net 2.0 application.  The map I am interested in seeing is
only of the continental US.  My Mapserver Mapfile declares the extents as
EXTENT -127.0 26.0 -66.0 49.0 which should cover the CONUS.  In my
OpenLayers declarations I have the following:

var options = {maxExtent: new OpenLayers.Bounds(-127.0, 26.0, -66.0,
49.0),numZoomLevels: 20};
           

var map = new OpenLayers.Map('pnlDynamic',options, { controls: [] });

My "zoom in" is sufficient to see the detail I require, but in zooming out,
the image goes well beyond the extents specified, with my map of the US
becoming very tiny in the middle of a field of blue.  How can I control the
zoom so that I can zoom in to sufficient detail, but only zoom out to the
extent specified?
 

Chip Taylor
Lead GIS and Web Developer
Prepared Response, Inc. 
1142 Broadway, Suite 400
Tacoma, WA 98402
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www.preparedresponse.com

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