Overview – OpenLayers Architect recent progress – Implemented control / panel integration
One of the biggest problems I encountered while working on the controls was that some controls belong to panels and some are independent. My first step was to determine what controls would not go inside a panel (for example, the overview map). I stored all the controls in an array and all the controls that belong to a panel have an attribute called “hasPanel”. I used this array to create a dropdown containing all the controls. As far as controls go, you can create either a control or a panel. To create a control, you select the control type from a dropdown list. Once a control is selected, it checks to see if it has the “hasPanel” attribute and if it does, a new drop down list is created containing a list of available panels. If no panels exists, a default panel will be created. Controls within a panel also have the ability to be moved to a different panel. Both Panels and individual controls can be edited. I am pleased that they are now fully integrated but there is still more left to do.
Overview – TODO:
I have two main goals I hope to achieve in the next week:
1. Finish up map configuration
-Will be similar to the layer and control configurations.
2. Begin working on converting OLArchitect’s global map object to OpenLayer’s format. For the most part, I mimicked the OpenLayers object but I have added a few additional fields to help keep track of things on the website, such as an ID for each element (object, panels, layers, etc)
Throughout the process I’ve been keeping in mind how to best implement the dragging / dropping. For the most part, I have it worked out, and once I finish the above two tasks I’ll be actually implementing it.
You can check out the current version at http://olarchitect.com/
