Jedy Wang wrote: > Hi Frank, > > Has the UI spec for the timezone widget been done? On the webpage of UI > spec for slim08, I found some informations. But there are still a lot of > things unclear. > > 1. I need the picture of the map with which I can translate (longitude, > latitude) to (x, y) easily. Currently I am using the map from evolution > to develop my prototype. > > 2. The size of the map. Is it big enough for the user to find out the > city he want? If not, what should I do, zoom in and provide scroll bar? > > 3. Currently we use region/location/timezone to choose a timezone and > these informations come from > get_tz_continents/get_tz_countries/get_timezones_by_country system > calls. But they do not provide latitude/longitude which I need to draw > the points on the map. In my prototype, I read the information > from /usr/share/lib/zoneinfo/tab/zone_sun.tab. But I can not get > region/location from zone_sun.tab. I wonder if we should still use > region/location/timezone to choose a timezone. (From zone_sub.tab I can > get timezone only but from timezone string I can parse continent I > think.) > > 4. Details of the widget, like: > What should the tooltip look like? > What should the point on map look like? > ... > > Regards, > > Jedy > > _______________________________________________ > caiman-discuss mailing list > caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss
> http://jdsbj.prc.sun.com/wiki//images/b/ba/Worldmap.png This picture appears to be a Miller cylindrical projection: See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_cylindrical_projection The above page offers equations for translation from lat, long to x and y; some trig should yield the reverse equations. - Bart -- Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance barts at cyber.eng.sun.com http://blogs.sun.com/barts
