[OpenLayers-Users] Toolbar alternatives

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 03:23:37PM -0600, Steve Lime wrote:
> Greetings: Has anyone developed alternatives to the basic toolbar controls that are part
> of OpenLayers? I'm interested in 2 or 3 state tools, 

2 or 3 state? What does that mean?

> being able to enable/disable tools, 

This is possible with Control.Panel, but possibly buggy/unimplemented as
of yet. 

> context sensitive help (e.g. "use this to ..."), 

http://trac.openlayers.org/ticket/822

> being able to easily swap icon sets. 

Control.Panel icons are all controlled by CSS, easily overridable at the
application level.

> Stuff like that.
> 
> Or can the Panel class be used to do all that? 

I think that the control panel is probably the best place to start for
all the things you want, rather than going off and doing something else,
though others may disagree. I think that Bart did a custom toolbar for
his mapfish based app -- he might have some more feedback.

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
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