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Posted Monday, December 25, 2006 - Post #15374
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Great Ideas Ron, the Google Map in its own Window will be relatively transparent to the user, but improve viewing. I am one who has chosen to remove the dialog from the map and would appreciate the changes to the default.

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Posted Monday, December 25, 2006 - Post #15370
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Ron (12/24/2006)
But your suggestion of a separate page for the Google Map is an excellent suggestion. I believe that the Google Map can then be automatically resized to fit the window size, instead of the one static size it has at present. I will work on some changes to implement this proposal. I also intend to make the information bubble hidden by default, but appearing only when the Google Map marker is clicked.

But please leave an option in the config.xml to show google map as before, for those who don't want to see it on a seperate window

Posted Sunday, December 24, 2006 - Post #15356
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The problem of the map not displaying beside the picture is because at present the Google Map is of fixed size and the various browsers have different default margins. This can be avoided by changing the default Google Map sizes in Config.xml to suit your screen resolution/preferred window size. But there is still a problem with Firefox in that if the window/frame size is reduced the map overlaps the pictures. This is similar to an earlier problem with the Pedigree Chart.

But your suggestion of a separate page for the Google Map is an excellent suggestion. I believe that the Google Map can then be automatically resized to fit the window size, instead of the one static size it has at present. I will work on some changes to implement this proposal. I also intend to make the information bubble hidden by default, but appearing only when the Google Map marker is clicked.


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Posted Saturday, December 23, 2006 - Post #15352
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At the moment, after testing with Firefox and MSIE 7, the cohab of a Place with Pict(s) and Google Map is a bit peculiar, i.e. it doesn't properly display and looks messy.
Sorry if my PNG screenshots looks a bit blurr. It's because I reduced them to 85%.
a - With IE, I got this:


b - with FF, I got that:


I suggest the following modif. I'll use the abbrev LP for the Left Pane, RP for the Right Pane and PP for the Popup Pane:
1) when a place is clicked from the main place index in the LP, the place, as now, comes up in the RP. If you click on the place name in the RP, the PP opens with the same data:


I don't think this display/screen is very nice. I propose to remove the link on the RP place name and to add up a "View Google Map" link. Clicking on the link will bring up the map (only the map, the place name and the close icon) in the PP. The map size could even be increased upto the red border/viewport shown:


2) when a place is clicked from an Ind or a Fam page, it is a bit different. The place pops up in the PP. I also propose to add up a Google Map link:

after clicking the Map link, I propose the map to pop up in the same PP, replacing the place Narrative and Pict(S). A "Back" icon, as shown, could eventually be provided in order to go back to the previous Place Narr and Pict:

As a alternative to 2) above, the Place (birth, death, edu, ...) when clicked from an Ind/Fam RP page could open up in the RP, replacing the Ind/Fam page. Then the Map link will open the map in the PP. This will then be identical to 1) above. To go back to the Ind/Fam page, the Ind/Fam name will have to be re-clicked from the LP or with the help of a "Back" icon in the RP.

Care should also be taken, when clicking on a place name invoked from a source, a reference, etc, in order to keep the same choosen display process.

Up to you to implement but I think the display is neater that way. It may also ease Ron's job with these browser different behaviours.
Thank you.

Edited: Sunday, December 24, 2006 by jcguasp



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