I completely agree. So I'd like for us to integrate the best stuff of the two maps into each other.
Martin I guess we should discuss how we should go on with this? regards Nino Al Maw wrote: > I really think you guys should get together and do this, right now while > the project still has lots of momentum and the code is fresh. Having two > components, one of which seems to have a superset of the functionality > of the other, seems a little unnecessary. > > I've checked gmap2 out, BTW - very nice. ;-) > > Al > > Iulian Costan wrote: > >> yap, well done, also maybe we can put together the effort and improve >> things. >> >> /iulian >> >> On 6/14/07, Nino Saturnino Martinez Vazquez Wael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi Martin >>> >>> Well, both Iulian and me has done a lot of work on this during the last >>> couple of weeks. It's always nice to see to sides of the coin, maybe we >>> should pick the best stuff from our components and join up? >>> >>> Currently Iulian are working on upgrading the gmap contrib to wicket >>> 1.3, we decided not to make a release on wicket 1.2.6 since some of the >>> ajax stuff we are using arent working on the IE browser series(I have >>> another thread concering this). Upon releasing v 1 we will update >>> confluence so that the features we are using will be shown installation >>> instructions etc, heres a short list of features: >>> >>> All updates done via ajax, clicklisteners of all sorts(dragend, >>> zoomend). Possibility to integrate loading screens. 2 step initialized >>> and refresh, meaning no visible postbacks, we are using panTo. Control >>> the map serverside eg if user clicks the las vegas button the map will >>> pan to that area. Add overlays at will. Create custom overlays with >>> tooltips. Since we are using ajax all normal wicket ajax behavior are >>> also supported from the ajax target. >>> >>> Not sure if I forgot anything... >>> >>> >>> regards Nino >>> >>> Martin Funk wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> may I draw your attention to a little project I was allowed to add to >>>> the wicket-stuff svn repository yesterday. >>>> >>>> Being highly inspired by Julians and Nicos wicket-contrib-gmap I got >>>> exited enough to try to create a project that does the same and a >>>> >>> little >>> >>>> bit more with a little different approach. Kinda bold, since I haven't >>>> looked into JavaScript before. Julian and Nico I hope you don't mind >>>> that I tried to invent the wheel a second time, but if your project >>>> wouldn't have been around I probably never would have tried. So thank >>>> you for that. >>>> >>>> Features: >>>> There can be more than one GMap on a page, I think there can be >>>> >>> many, at >>> >>>> least I succeeded with two. >>>> >>>> Components may become controls of the GMap. Any Component capable of >>>> firing events can become a controller. The controls are executed >>>> whenever the named event is fired by the Component. Currently ZooOut, >>>> ZoomIn, PanDirection, AddOverlay and OpenInfoWindow are implemented. >>>> >>>> Listeners may be added to the GMap. These are called whenever the GMap >>>> fires the corresponding Events. So far a ClickListener and a >>>> MoveEndListener are implemented. This allows to dynamically update any >>>> Component and the GMap itself. >>>> >>>> The events and the controls always do a round trip from the browser to >>>> the server and back, this way any call can be intercepted and >>>> >>> controlled >>> >>>> on the server side. The network traffic is kept down, since all needed >>>> JavaScript functions are defined in a js-file. So only arguments >>>> >>> have to >>> >>>> be transfered. >>>> >>>> Status: >>>> Is best described by, consolidating. As I said, being a JavaScript >>>> newbie and a Java mediocre, it was sort of bold to start this. The >>>> features in mind I basically cut right through any API ahead of me >>>> without taking care of any design principles. So if you ever find the >>>> time to look into the code, give feedback! And I fear this project >>>> >>> is in >>> >>>> need for a lot of feedback. >>>> >>>> Last but not least: Installation. >>>> There is no release currently planed. The code compiles against the >>>> current HEAD of wicket. So get get wicket from svn as described in >>>> http://incubator.apache.org/wicket/building-from-svn.html first. >>>> This project relies on the well maintained structure of wickets pom.xml >>>> files. It needs to be checked out into wicket jdk-1.5 folder: >>>> >>>> cd <wickets-jdk-1.5-folder> >>>> svn co >>>> >>>> >>> https://wicket-stuff.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/wicket-stuff/trunk/wicket-contrib-gmap2 >>> >>> >>>> svn co >>>> >>>> >>> https://wicket-stuff.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/wicket-stuff/trunk/wicket-contrib-gmap2-examples >>> >>> >>>> This should do the install and get a jetty started for the examples: >>>> mvn -f wicket-contrib-gmap2/pom.xml install >>>> mvn -f wicket-contrib-gmap2-examples/pom.xml jetty:run >>>> >>>> Now browse to: >>>> http://localhost:8080/wicket-contrib-gmap2-examples/gmap/ >>>> and click around. >>>> >>>> >>>> Have fun, >>>> >>>> Martin >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> >>>> This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express >>>> Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take >>>> control of your XML. No limits. Just data. 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