[OpenLayers-Users] Delaying Layer Initialization

[bradleyspencer]

Jeremy,

I had this very same issue so I built my own Layer Manager which is
populated from an external XML file.

See http://ozdemo.getmyip.com/skin03.html

This also allows me to add radio buttons for getfeatureinfo events and links
attached to the layer names for legend displays.

Much more flexible than the LayerSwitcher I think.

Still in development and only working in FF at this point.

Cheers,



Brad Spencer
General Manager
CubeWerx Australia Pty Ltd
ABN: 37 115 163 285
Mob: +61 (0)404 841 131
Tel/Fax: +61 (0)2 9481 7024
mailto:brad at cubewerx.com.au
http://www.cubewerx.com.au

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeremy Nix [mailto:Jeremy.Nix at sfsltd.com]
Sent: Saturday, 26 May 2007 1:35 AM
To: users at openlayers.org
Subject: [OpenLayers-Users] Delaying Layer Initialization

Is there a way to delay a layer's initialization process? Here's the
situation that we're running into. We have around ten layers that we
want to make available, but the screen's initial loading time is immense
as these layers are mostly tile layers and some servers are better than
others at feeding up the images. We figure that in a given view, the
user is most likely only going to use a handful (2-3) of the given
layers. Maybe a property could be added to a layer to denote whether to
initialize before set to visible. Does anybody else find that to be
useful? Or have you found workarounds of your own to deal with similar
loading time issues?

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Jeremy Nix
Senior Application Developer
Southwest Financial Services, Ltd.
(513) 621-6699




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Jeremy Nix
Senior Application Developer
Southwest Financial Services, Ltd.
(513) 621-6699

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