[OpenLayers-Users] CSS (attempted) restyling . . .Ouch!!

[Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul)]

All,

Oops, sorry about that, I was working on things late on Friday, and left it broken over the weekend.

The links should work now on the outside (I just checked!!).

http://pwultra5.ci.stpaul.mn.us/cgi-bin/avl/avl_dev01_proxy.pl?fleet_name=Parks
http://pwultra5.ci.stpaul.mn.us/cgi-bin/avl/avl_dev01_proxy.pl?fleet_name=Traffic
http://pwultra5.ci.stpaul.mn.us/cgi-bin/avl/avl_dev01_proxy.pl?fleet_name=Sewers
http://pwultra5.ci.stpaul.mn.us/cgi-bin/avl/avl_dev01_proxy.pl

I was trying to get something going fairly quickly.  This interface is a stop gap while I put together something intended for the longer term, which is where I would concentrate my efforts on trying to implement your suggestions.

All the capabilities you mention for example are available in GeoMoose which is build on top of OpenLayers, and was going to be included in my next round of development on this.

Bobb




>>  -----Original Message-----
>>  From: openlayers-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
>>  [mailto:openlayers-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of
>>  Sergeant_york
>>  Sent: Friday, November 16, 2012 1:34 PM
>>  To: openlayers-users at lists.osgeo.org
>>  Subject: Re: [OpenLayers-Users] CSS (attempted) restyling . .
>>  .Ouch!!
>>  
>>  Hello there,
>>  
>>  May I suggest you to completely hide the layer switcher and make
>>  your own?
>>  There are several reasons for this suggestion:
>>  
>>  *1- Layer switcher has so little functionality so easy to
>>  implement new one for yourself:* All it does is to use
>>  .setBaseMap and .setVisibility functions. You can get layers from
>>  map.layers and divide em into base and overlay maps, otherwise
>>  going into its css spends -at least for me it was like that- much
>>  more time than creating a new one
>>  *2- Layer switcher has so little functionality so better to
>>  implement one with more functionality: *Overlays and base maps
>>  also has "opacity" property which is so useful for civil
>>  engineers and other users. All you have to do is putting some
>>  sliders and binding the change opacity event to slider, slider's
>>  event to changeOpacity. Also changing z-index etc can be
>>  implemented for layers to pull one on another one.
>>  *3- Layer switcher items are a bit ugly and hard to modify:*
>>  Checkboxes and other things doesn't look so nice. Instead you
>>  might use some other elements from some other frameworks. Also,
>>  layer switcher has a bit rigit structure like popping from right
>>  and hiding to right, therefore it was not so easy to move it to
>>  somewhere where you wanted.
>>  
>>  Your links are not working right now so I couldn't understand
>>  what you are going to achieve.
>>  
>>  I remember having hard times to override css elements and ending
>>  up writing !important to everywhere in layerswitcher just to make
>>  styling work.
>>  
>>  
>>  
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