I'm probably wrong to speak about "sliding doors". This is probably different to what I would like to achieve.
For example, here is what GMap uses to build the popup using one single image (in fact, there is another image for the shadow). <img style="border: 0px none ; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; left: 0px; top: 0px; width: 690px; height: 786px; -moz-user-select: none;" src="http://www.google.com/intl/en_fr/mapfiles/iw2.png"/> Pierre On Jan 18, 2008 4:25 PM, Paul Spencer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 18-Jan-08, at 10:07 AM, Pierre GIRAUD wrote: > > >> > >> Second change: http://trac.openlayers.org/changeset/5716 > >> > >> Started using images, but no alpha hack yet. While doing that (or > >> maybe > >> a little before), I put the image references in a hash to make them > >> easier to deal with. > > > > Sorry, I didn't get a close look at the art design and images before, > > but I know wonder why we don't deal with the well-known (hum, think > > so) "sliding doors" effect [1] and manage only one image for the whole > > popup, as GMap already does. [2] > > Extjs also relies on such a technique for the buttons for example, and > > it works well. One main advantage : less images to download at once. > > I'll check that soon, and will tell you how difficult it is to get > > this working. > > Pierre, > > I think the "sliding doors" technique requires at least two images and > the technique is typically limited to resizing in one direction > (either vertically or horizontally) and has to be fixed in the other > direction based on the design of the images. Not sure if this is a > requirement here or not. > > Our design guy did come up with a way to resize both dimensions using > four images, but I'm not sure if he got the technique to work (it > wasn't in relation to OpenLayers, it was some other thing he was > working on, but it could apply). This is a bit more complicated to > set up (div container, two more divs inside that have to be set up > correctly to contain the sliding doors images, and two more images to > make the missing corners) than sliding doors. > > Cheers, > > Paul > __________________________________________ > > Paul Spencer > Chief Technology Officer > DM Solutions Group Inc > http://www.dmsolutions.ca/ > > _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
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