[OpenLayers-Dev] [OpenLayers-Trac] [OpenLayers] #966: Add att ribution control to map by default

[John Cole]

Christopher,
  When we print maps, we are using OpenLayers, as it's still a WMS layer,
but there is only one base layer.  When we create the OL map, we specify no
controls at all, because these can have issues with different browsers print
engines (sometimes the top control covers up the entire map, for whatever
reason).  It would be nice if all the browsers behaved the similar when it
came to printing, but to reduce the problems we strip the map down to just
the un-tiled image and nothing else.

  I'd like to make sure that whenever I print, no other controls exist, even
if they are disabled.  I'm worried about an empty div section blocking the
map during printing.  If the control has it's outer div set to display:none,
then I doubt it would interfere, but just an empty one may cause problems.

John

-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher Schmidt [mailto:crschmidt at metacarta.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 9:37 AM
To: John Cole
Cc: dev at openlayers.org
Subject: Re: [OpenLayers-Dev] [OpenLayers-Trac] [OpenLayers] #966: Add att
ribution control to map by default

On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 09:14:12AM -0500, John Cole wrote:
> -1
> 
> And my reason for this is because of printing.  We have to put a copyright
> notice for our HUD site, and we do it with a DIV tag similar to the scale
> control and I assume the new attribution control.
> 
> But, when we print maps, we merge all of the layers into a single one for
> printing to work, and I have MapServer put the copyright notice at the
> bottom of the map (normally we do not want a layer just for copyright
notice
> and a separate WMS call, so the div tag works great for the interactive
> map).

I'm confused, I guess.

 1. When you print maps, are you using OpenLayers? 
 2. When you print maps, do you have multiple layers turned on?

If you're going to print a map, and you create a new base layer, and use
no other layers -- then you simply don't have an attribution property
set on your layer. If the control is there, it will, *by default* do 
nothing -- it only does something if you explicitly set the
'attribution' property on the layer to something that is not null. So,
on your draggable maps, you have the attribution property set -- and on
the printable maps, you don't. Right?

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
MetaCarta

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