Hi Andrea, was playig with it for a while and seems certainly very useful.
One usefull feature to add would be ability to select the style to apply. Though I realize it would be not that easy as may require capabilities parsing and we know what happens with the huge list of crs's. Tip: to make it work with ports other than 8080 and contexts other than /geoserver its only needed to use relative urls (current preview page suffers from the same defect). To do so, just change any occurrence of "http://localhost:8080/geoserver/wms"; by "../wms", and "http://localhost:8080geoserver/openlayers/OpenLayers.js"; by "openlayers/OpenLayers.js" nice work, worths becoming the new preview imho. Gabriel On Sunday 04 May 2008 12:03:29 pm Andrea Aime wrote: > Hi, > during last weekends I tried to improve a little my > html/css/javascript-fu and now I've taken a crack at > http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOS-1382, > that is, making the OL preview a little more useful. > > The result is attached (screenshot + html file). You can try it out > live by putting that state.htm file in your GEOSERVER_DATA_DIR/www > directory and try it out live. > > What it adds? Well, a series of combos allowing you to: > * switch between tiled and untiled in an obvious way (instead of > being hidden inside a map control) > * play with antialias settings > * change the tile format > * change the palette (this assumes you have those palettes in the > list on your computer, if not, it won't work) > * change the map preview size (width and height), something I > do very often and that's quite annoying when you have to > hunt down the params in the url > > The thing also uncovered a few issues, for example text > only antialiasing is not working properly, antialiasing and > palette interact with each other generating some unpleasant > results (jira issues opened). > > Well, what do you think about it? Worth becoming the new preview? > I find it quite handy, yet not really beautiful. Also, the > css/javascript in the HTML got a lot bigger... which might > be an issue for people willing to take the preview as > a starting point... or not, if they want to allow the user to > choose between map quality and tile size for example. > > To tell you the truth, I was tempted to add CQL filtering > and metatiling cotrol to the mix as well, but the toolbar was > becoming a little too big. With stuff like extjs one could turn > the toolbar into a less obstrusive dialog, yet, that would > increase the size of the preview (more js libs to load) > and the complexity of the javascript even further... > > Well, opinions welcomed, fire away :) > Cheers > Andrea > > > !DSPAM:4045,481d8a1b37611961014482! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ Geoserver-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-devel
