I really think you guys should get together and do this, right now while the project still has lots of momentum and the code is fresh. Having two components, one of which seems to have a superset of the functionality of the other, seems a little unnecessary.
I've checked gmap2 out, BTW - very nice. ;-) Al Iulian Costan wrote: > yap, well done, also maybe we can put together the effort and improve > things. > > /iulian > > On 6/14/07, Nino Saturnino Martinez Vazquez Wael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> >> Hi Martin >> >> Well, both Iulian and me has done a lot of work on this during the last >> couple of weeks. It's always nice to see to sides of the coin, maybe we >> should pick the best stuff from our components and join up? >> >> Currently Iulian are working on upgrading the gmap contrib to wicket >> 1.3, we decided not to make a release on wicket 1.2.6 since some of the >> ajax stuff we are using arent working on the IE browser series(I have >> another thread concering this). Upon releasing v 1 we will update >> confluence so that the features we are using will be shown installation >> instructions etc, heres a short list of features: >> >> All updates done via ajax, clicklisteners of all sorts(dragend, >> zoomend). Possibility to integrate loading screens. 2 step initialized >> and refresh, meaning no visible postbacks, we are using panTo. Control >> the map serverside eg if user clicks the las vegas button the map will >> pan to that area. Add overlays at will. Create custom overlays with >> tooltips. Since we are using ajax all normal wicket ajax behavior are >> also supported from the ajax target. >> >> Not sure if I forgot anything... >> >> >> regards Nino >> >> Martin Funk wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > may I draw your attention to a little project I was allowed to add to >> > the wicket-stuff svn repository yesterday. >> > >> > Being highly inspired by Julians and Nicos wicket-contrib-gmap I got >> > exited enough to try to create a project that does the same and a >> little >> > bit more with a little different approach. Kinda bold, since I haven't >> > looked into JavaScript before. Julian and Nico I hope you don't mind >> > that I tried to invent the wheel a second time, but if your project >> > wouldn't have been around I probably never would have tried. So thank >> > you for that. >> > >> > Features: >> > There can be more than one GMap on a page, I think there can be >> many, at >> > least I succeeded with two. >> > >> > Components may become controls of the GMap. Any Component capable of >> > firing events can become a controller. The controls are executed >> > whenever the named event is fired by the Component. Currently ZooOut, >> > ZoomIn, PanDirection, AddOverlay and OpenInfoWindow are implemented. >> > >> > Listeners may be added to the GMap. These are called whenever the GMap >> > fires the corresponding Events. So far a ClickListener and a >> > MoveEndListener are implemented. This allows to dynamically update any >> > Component and the GMap itself. >> > >> > The events and the controls always do a round trip from the browser to >> > the server and back, this way any call can be intercepted and >> controlled >> > on the server side. The network traffic is kept down, since all needed >> > JavaScript functions are defined in a js-file. So only arguments >> have to >> > be transfered. >> > >> > Status: >> > Is best described by, consolidating. As I said, being a JavaScript >> > newbie and a Java mediocre, it was sort of bold to start this. The >> > features in mind I basically cut right through any API ahead of me >> > without taking care of any design principles. So if you ever find the >> > time to look into the code, give feedback! And I fear this project >> is in >> > need for a lot of feedback. >> > >> > Last but not least: Installation. >> > There is no release currently planed. The code compiles against the >> > current HEAD of wicket. So get get wicket from svn as described in >> > http://incubator.apache.org/wicket/building-from-svn.html first. >> > This project relies on the well maintained structure of wickets pom.xml >> > files. It needs to be checked out into wicket jdk-1.5 folder: >> > >> > cd <wickets-jdk-1.5-folder> >> > svn co >> > >> https://wicket-stuff.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/wicket-stuff/trunk/wicket-contrib-gmap2 >> >> > svn co >> > >> https://wicket-stuff.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/wicket-stuff/trunk/wicket-contrib-gmap2-examples >> >> > >> > This should do the install and get a jetty started for the examples: >> > mvn -f wicket-contrib-gmap2/pom.xml install >> > mvn -f wicket-contrib-gmap2-examples/pom.xml jetty:run >> > >> > Now browse to: >> > http://localhost:8080/wicket-contrib-gmap2-examples/gmap/ >> > and click around. >> > >> > >> > Have fun, >> > >> > Martin >> > >> > >> > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express >> > Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take >> > control of your XML. No limits. Just data. 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