[OpenLayers-Users] Toolbar alternatives

[Steve Lime]

Thanks Bart (and Chris) for the response. Bart is correct about the button states, sorry for
not being more explicit. I remember Cameron Shorter posting an architecture for a button
bar way back, may have been on the defunct webgis mailing list shortly after the FOSS4G
2006 meeting. I've got something I wrote based on that design (from what I can remember)
that mostly works and could  be made stand-alone (depends slightly on the x dhtml library for 
event registration).

I'll have a look at the EXTJS toolbar too.

Steve

>>> On 11/28/2007 at 1:06 AM, in message
<63e14626b949b7646cec4255e8375b41 at 145.50.39.11>, "Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS)"
<bartvde at osgis.nl> wrote:
> I believe 3-state buttons have clicked, normal and hover styles.
> 
> Steve, I used a combination of ExtJS's toolbar and OpenLayers' Controls. But
> I don't know if you can add this extra dependency for your application.
> 
> Anwyay, my code and some docs are in the MapFish trac if you want to have a
> look:
> 
> https://trac.mapfish.org/trac/mapfish/ticket/35 
> 
> Best regards,
> Bart
> 
> --
> Bart van den Eijnden
> OSGIS, Open Source GIS
> http://www.osgis.nl 
> 
> 
> --------- Oorspronkelijk bericht --------
> Van: Christopher Schmidt <crschmidt at metacarta.com>
> Naar: Steve Lime <Steve.Lime at dnr.state.mn.us>
> Cc: users at openlayers.org 
> Onderwerp: Re: [OpenLayers-Users] Toolbar alternatives
> Datum: 27/11/07 21:53
> 
>> On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 03:23:37PM -0600, Steve Lime wrote:
>> &gt; Greetings: Has anyone developed alternatives to the basic toolbar
> controls that are part
>> &gt; of OpenLayers? I'm interested in 2 or 3 state tools, 
>> 
>> 2 or 3 state? What does that mean?
>> 
>> &gt; being able to enable/disable tools, 
>> 
>> This is possible with Control.Panel, but possibly buggy/unimplemented as
>> of yet. 
>> 
>> &gt; context sensitive help (e.g. &quot;use this to ...&quot;), 
>> 
>> http://trac.openlayers.org/ticket/822 
>> 
>> &gt; being able to easily swap icon sets. 
>> 
>> Control.Panel icons are all controlled by CSS, easily overridable at the
>> application level.
>> 
>> &gt; Stuff like that.
>> &gt; 
>> &gt; 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
>> MetaCarta
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