Erik, Yeah that will be great! This is a cool feature, I will love seeing it in a future release!
regards, Pedro Simonetti. 2008/4/30 Fred warnock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Erik, > > It was always our intention to submit this back to the community in the > way you have described. > > I just wanted to get some feedback on our approach before standing it up > as a "solution". It seems that the code was set up to be configurable, > kind of like a style sheet, but in Javascript. We adjusted the > positioning and sizing values, following what patterns we could recognise. > > Once we've filed the ticket, I'm sure we'll get that feedback so we can > tidy it up if need be. > > fred > > > > Erik Uzureau wrote: > > This is unfortunately the very gap that keeps most of the good work that > people > > do in the community from getting re-absorbed into the project. > > > > It is unusual that folks have the time or resources to develop > > *general* solutions > > to problems they encounter when using OL (or any other FOSS project, I > would > > venture to say). The goal is generally solving the task at hand rather > > than forming > > a universal solution that might be helpful to others. > > > > And that, of course, is nobody's fault. The only way to overcome it is > > to convince > > our managers that a little extra effort to give things back to the > > community is a > > worthwhile proposition: no simple task, indeed. > > > > Just taking the step you did to write to the mailing list with your > > work is more than > > most people do and a great help as it is. If you could spend the time > > to get your > > work into a ticket in trac with a straightforward patch, it would be > > even better... but > > as I've said above, even just the email to the list is a generous gesture. > > > > -e > > > > > > > > On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Fred warnock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Thanks guys, > >> > >> Bill is going to follow up on your suggestion. > >> > >> I initially thought sending it to this list would allow some folks to > >> comment on what we did before putting it forward as a "solution". It > works > >> for our needs, but poking around with the numbers to get the image with a > >> drop shadow to work left us feeling a bit uneasy. > >> > >> We were not sure that we changed the numbers as optimally as possible, > even > >> though visually it works. > >> > >> All the best, > >> Fred > >> > >> > >> > >> Erik Uzureau wrote: > >>> On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 9:21 PM, Roald de Wit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> wrote: > >>>> Hi Fred, > >>>> > >>>> On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 10:00 -0400, Fred warnock wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> Last week Bill Bronsema and I updated to the latest version and found > >>>>> that the drop shadow was no longer part of the out-of-the-box > >> CloudAmber > >>>>> popup. So we made a 24 bit PNG that was close to the old style and > >>>>> > >>>> Thanks for that. In order to have your contribution added to OpenLayers, > >>>> it is best that you create a ticket in Trac and add this as a feature > >>>> [1]. Create a patch against the current OL version (2.6) or even better: > >>>> trunk. You can attach the image to the ticket. > >>>> > >>>> Solutions provided on the mailing list get easily forgotten, which would > >>>> be a pity. > >>>> > >>> It is true. It is a constant and ongoing pity. :-( > >>> Erik > >>> > >>> > >>>> Regards, > >>>> > >>>> Roald > >>>> > >>>> [1] http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/HowToContribute > >>>> -- > >>>> Roald de Wit > >>>> Software Engineer > >>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>>> > >>>> Commercial Support for Open Source GIS Software > >>>> http://lisasoft.com/LISAsoft/SupportedProducts/ > >>>> > >>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>> Users mailing list > >>>> Users@openlayers.org > >>>> http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users > >>>> > >>>> > >>> > > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users@openlayers.org > http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users > _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@openlayers.org http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users