[OpenLayers-Users] Question on changing Popups on Textlayer

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 03:27:34PM -0500, Yves Moisan wrote:
> 
> Le lundi 17 novembre 2008 à 14:23 -0500, Yves Moisan a écrit :
> 
> > > > > 
> > > > > How does it not? can you provide an example? It should.
> > > > 
> > > > The only thing I can think of is that my textfile is not read the same
> > > > way by both forms.  The beginning of it is :
> > > > 
> > > > lat lon title   description icon    iconSize    iconOffset
> > > > 48.9    9.6075669   Bleu 24x24	Description one<br>Second line.<br>(click
> > > > again to close)	images/Ol_icon_blue_example.png	24,24	0,-24 
> > > > 48.9899851	9.5382032	Rouge 8x8	Description two.
> > > > images/Ol_icon_red_example.png	8,8	-8,-8
> > > > 
> 
> OK.  I went too quick on one point.  I had cut and paste some code that
> was looking for feature.name.  Switching that to feature.title got rid
> of the "undefined" I had.  I hadn't payed attention because according to
> http://dev.openlayers.org/docs/files/OpenLayers/Layer/Text-js.html :
> "The possible columns are: ... title ..."
> 
> So I understand that the title column can be named something else like
> name ? 

I'm not sure I understand your question. Is your question "Can the
OpenLayers code be changed to support this?" If so, the answer is, in my
opinion, "no": this format only exists for historical reasons, and any
new development should be done with more sane formats.

> Could "lat" be renamed "latitude" then ?  Point is : that is a
> departure from layer.text, albeit a minor one I admit.  

Again, I'm not sure I understand what you're saying. 

> More important a
> departure IMO is that now one has to have values for iconSize and
> iconOffset.  With a layer.text, those were optional.

Fair enough. I'm willing to cnosider that a bug: Please feel free to
file a ticket folowing the instructions in
http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/FilingTickets 

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
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