> From: "Gambin Dejan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Thanks Armin, > > For the first, as e brief description, it is the proposal of the general > town-planning scheme. The service is providing by the city of Pula > (local government), where I work. > > Thanks for the versions clarification. I have some more questions: > > 1. Since I am not a web developer, I can't discuss much over frames and > divs, but I am interested in how can the "design"part be separated form > the "content" part in p.mapper? I would really like if I can change the > "visual identity" of my p.mapper sites without the need to change a lot > of HTML code (that I am not expert in). I see pmapper is using > CSS....what can be set in the css except the colors, sizes, etc. For > example, is it possible to change the positions of the elements in a > simple way? I am planning to make some more maps and pmapper seems good > for me so I would like to continue using it...
The position of the elements is not possible to set via CSS. In pmapper 1 with the frame-based solution you can do this via the frame definitions, more or less easily. My intention for p.mapper 2 was to have the positioning of the DIV's also via CSS, but there are problems doing this. Mainly related to the way how you have to define resizing (and repositioning). That needs more or less to know how the DIV objects are related to each other, like the legend right of the map, etc. The advantage of pmapper 2 is that you have just to deal with 1 file for the layout (map.phtml). Ok, depending how you re-organize the layout you will also need to to modify the resizeDIV() function and that is not very straightforward. I still haven't got a good idea to facilitate this. > > 2. What about the translation mechanism? Is it now separated from the > mapfile? For pmapper 2 yes, for version 1 I will also probably modify this to keep both versions synchronized. I stumbled also about several problems when dealing with special characters that I will try to solve in the next days. There will be special settings to do for character sets outside of ISO-8859-1. UTF unfortunately is not very well supported by SQLite what I would in principal prefer for the localization part. > > 3. Since my next install of mapserver is on the Windows machine, I have > installed ms4w yesterday...I went to maptools.org and there are > "packaged" versions of some web apps (cartoweb,ka-map,maplab) for ms4w. > I have seen a document on how to package your own application...wouldn't > it be good to do it for pmapper? And to set pmapper link on this site > like other tools are? If you want I can try to do it... I don't know ms4w and how it's set up. It's for sure not in my direct plans, mainly because I do not want to mess up my computer with installations of various versions and configurations of apache and php and so forth. And I don't have another Windows box available, just Linux, one for testing and one for the demo site. If you want to work on that, you're welcome. Something I would like much more is a live CD with Linux and all required Mapserver/PostGIS libs based eg on Knoppix, but the one available is always quite outdated. Or something like HostGIS Linux, but that's on Slackware and I don't know this distribution very well, and it's not a live CD. -- Telefonieren Sie schon oder sparen Sie noch? NEU: GMX Phone_Flat http://www.gmx.net/de/go/telefonie
