Hi Steve, You're right that you would need your ISP to support Java servlets to run painter. We're thinking of running painter at several places for redundancy, so that you can switch between them in case one goes down. But a client side painter is also a great alternative.
David Steve wrote: > Hi David, > If I'm reading things correctly, unfortunately, that's not a generic > solution as it requires specific technology from your ISP which mine > unfortunately, doesn't support. > > I think I'll need to investigate the thread where a client side > painter was posted as that seems like the only viable alternative. The > MIT painter URL is still down and has broken the app I've been working > on so I need to seek another solution. > > -Steve > > On Dec 19, 11:21 am, David Huynh <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Robert Forkel wrote: >> >>> hi, >>> i took the opportunity today - simile.mit.edu being down - to get >>> exhibit plus timeline and maps extension to run independent of >>> simile.mit.edu. >>> while the necessary changes in the source code to work around hard >>> coded paths were pretty minimal (i have to clean up my code before it >>> can serve as a tutorial), the problem with the painter script was >>> harder. the map extension call a script running on simile.mit.edu to >>> create dynamic map markers on the fly. >>> i first replaced that script with a pretty basic python cgi script >>> using PIL to create rather primitive markers, but then found the >>> javascript here: >>> http://gmaps-utility-library.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/mapiconmaker/re... >>> which i simply substituted for the Exhibit.MapView._makeIcon function. >>> the only thing left to do now is replacing the calls to the painter >>> script used for the markers in the map legend. >>> regards, >>> robert >>> >> In case you still want to use "painter", then you can host it yourself >> at some URL and then tell Exhibit to use that service URL: >> >> http://groups.google.com/group/simile-widgets/browse_thread/thread/84... >> <http://groups.google.com/group/simile-widgets/browse_thread/thread/84...> >> >> David >> > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SIMILE Widgets" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/simile-widgets?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
