I see data-ex-icon needs an expression, not an string. If not, exhibit
raises an error (No such variable called ...)  Maybe you could use an
icon-coder or such an expression (concat ...)


-- luismiguel  (@lmorillas)


2015-09-09 16:51 GMT+02:00 David Karger <[email protected]>:
> what do you mean by a local png?  any icon that is used is going to be
> referenced by a url somewhere.  you can, if you want, define a data: url in
> order to avoid needing to make a separate http request, but anyway once the
> icon is fetched once it will be cached and other references to it will be
> fast.
>
>
> On 9/9/2015 9:40 AM, [email protected] wrote:
>
> I tried working with that example, actually. My problem was that they
> - use different icons so they have to put the url in the json file
> - use a link to the image online instead of referring to a local png
>
> I wasn't able to figure out how to proceed. Do I really have to add
> "pin.png" to the json file for every single item? That doesn't seem right
> somehow as I want to use the same icon for all items.
> Sorry that I'm so slow with this, I've never worked with html/exhibit before
> and the different demos/examples sometimes aren't enough help.
>
> Am Dienstag, 8. September 2015 15:56:52 UTC-4 schrieb Luis Miguel Morillas:
>>
>> data-ex-icon is ok. See the example [1] Is "pin.png" the correct url?
>>
>>
>> [1] http://simile-widgets.org/exhibit3/examples/presidents/presidents.html
>> Saludos,
>>
>> -- luismiguel  (@lmorillas)
>>
>>
>> 2015-09-08 17:45 GMT+02:00  <[email protected]>:
>> > Hi everybody,
>> >
>> > I'm trying to create a map with a lot of marked places and would like to
>> > replace the standard exhibit map icon (orange bubble) with something a
>> > little thinner. I am very new to exhibit and not sure how/where to
>> > modify my
>> > code. I have the icon I would like to use saved as pin.png. Could
>> > anybody
>> > tell me what I have to do to exchange the icon?
>> > Here is the map part of my code:
>> >
>> > <td id="main-content">
>> >        <div data-ex-role="viewPanel">
>> >            <div data-ex-role="view"
>> >           data-ex-view-class="Map"
>> >           data-ex-label="Resume"
>> >         data-ex-latlng=".latlan"
>> >           data-ex-center="38.894955,-77.036646"
>> >         data-ex-zoom="11"
>> >         data-ex-map-height="620"
>> >         data-ex-show-header="false"
>> >         style = "display:none;">
>> >
>> >             <div class="map-lens" data-ex-role="lens" style="display:
>> > none;">
>> >
>> >                  <div>Skills: <span data-ex-content=".skills"></span>
>> > <span
>> > data-ex-content=".skills2"></span></div>
>> >                  <div>Languages: <span
>> > data-ex-content=".language"></span>
>> > <span data-ex-content=".language2"></span></div>
>> >
>> >             </div>
>> >               </div>
>> >         </div>
>> > </td>
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > I tried adding the line
>> > data-ex-icon="pin.png"
>> > which didn't work. I know this can't be so hard and would appreciate
>> > some
>> > help.
>> >
>> > Thanks!
>> >
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