Re: [mapguide-users] Zooming / Moving to a point on the map using the Server Side API

2008-06-26 Thread Carl Jokl
Thanks for the information. At least I know now it cannot be done from the server directly. I have implemented and tested a mechanism which feeds back a call to the client to perform the required action on the client side. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Zooming---Moving-t

Re: [mapguide-users] Zooming / Moving to a point on the map using the Server Side API

2008-06-24 Thread Gunter Becker
Hi Carl, you can use the WebTier API to move and zoom to a special extent. That is the same the AjaxViewer does. You have to do a server side web request like you can see in the code below: string url = WebDomain + "/mapguide/mapagent/mapagent.fcgi?OPERATION=GETVISIBLEMAPEXTENT&VERSION=1.0.

Re: [mapguide-users] Zooming / Moving to a point on the map using the Server Side API

2008-06-24 Thread foolfish
the viewer API ZoomToView() can be used to achieve your needs. Carl Jokl wrote: > > I wanted to ask about the process which you have to go through in order to > use the MapGuide server side API to move the map position and zoom. > > The simple functionality seems to exist on the client side

Re: [mapguide-users] Zooming / Moving to a point on the map using the Server Side API

2008-06-24 Thread Kenneth Skovhede, GEOGRAF A/S
The runtime map does not contain any position information. The position and scale is only maintained on the client. Each request for a map image contains the center coordinates and a scale. Given this, there cannot exist a server side API for doing this. The runtime map is not in Xml format, but

[mapguide-users] Zooming / Moving to a point on the map using the Server Side API

2008-06-24 Thread Carl Jokl
I wanted to ask about the process which you have to go through in order to use the MapGuide server side API to move the map position and zoom. The simple functionality seems to exist on the client side via the JavaScript libraries to move the map to a given x, y, position via just a just a functi