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Thread: Web based graphical city planner/mapper tool
What browser are you using that you are having problems with?
As to your suggestion... I was about to come back and say how it wouldn't be a good idea since there are such high system requirements for browsers to work..... I got halfway through typing that up when I realized that such a page would be very simple and something most browsers should be able to handle. So I quickly threw together such a page. It still requires a javascript capable browser, but it is very simple and should work with older browsers, and in general a much wider veriety of browsers.
I would be interested to hear if the viewer works in your web browser. You can test it quickly by checking this which should be a little map with a checkerboard pattern of small gardens.
gald i could sugest it......and i think alot of people would use it...i know i need it NOW lol....
i tested it....the background was there.....but no "icons" im using IE 6...java enabled on a t1 fat pipe (i work for an isp)
so keep tweeking....
also....the WP thing works for me now...dont know if you did anything or not....
i dont know if you could posably do this....but if you get the page im talking about to work and intergrate it into the the tool....maby you could also make the cords stick too...so that way when a citizin looks at the "non-editable-mayor end page" that as they hover the wp (basied on the info place in byt the original mayor) would disply as a popup on the curser....
lol
need more ideas...let me know....
but yeah should be great....the tool and the output url that mayors can link to (witch genrates the non-editable page using the string)and the wps of all the housing.....now thats a tool.
vonbloodworth wrote:
gald i could sugest it......and i think alot of people would use it...i know i need it NOW lol....
i tested it....the background was there.....but no "icons" im using IE 6...java enabled on a t1 fat pipe (i work for an isp)
so keep tweeking....
also....the WP thing works for me now...dont know if you did anything or not....
That's a bit of a headscratcher. I use IE 6 as one of my test platforms. Specifically, 6.0.2800.1106 on win2k. I'm not really sure what could be different to cause it not to work. If you want, give this a try... Follow the link in my last post to the viewer. Make sure the URL has more after the view.html. It should be somewhat longish. Then enter this into the address bar (replacing the URL).
javascript:alert(window.location.href);alert(window.mapdata)
When you hit enter, it should pop up a series of alert windows. The first one should be the same as the URL, and the second should be the longish part at the end of the URL. Let me know what you get.
i dont know if you could posably do this....but if you get the page im talking about to work and intergrate it into the the tool....maby you could also make the cords stick too...so that way when a citizin looks at the "non-editable-mayor end page" that as they hover the wp (basied on the info place in byt the original mayor) would disply as a popup on the curser....
lol
need more ideas...let me know....
but yeah should be great....the tool and the output url that mayors can link to (witch genrates the non-editable page using the string)and the wps of all the housing.....now thats a tool.
Heh, but I guess the example wouldn't work for you anyway, given that the normal display doesn't work.
That's a bit of a headscratcher. I use IE 6 as one of my test platforms. Specifically, 6.0.2800.1106 on win2k. I'm not really sure what could be different to cause it not to work. If you want, give this a try... Follow the link in my last post to the viewer. Make sure the URL has more after the view.html. It should be somewhat longish. Then enter this into the address bar (replacing the URL).
im going to have a friend check it too......but juat a few thoughts....preloder maby? add or maby interfering? are you shure that thies "images" are being pointed to by the url? (i dont realy know how this stuff works)i got the back ground...and the super long url....but none of the widgits..it was blank...but yes basicly you have my idea on this part....
That's a bit of a headscratcher. I use IE 6 as one of my test platforms. Specifically, 6.0.2800.1106 on win2k. I'm not really sure what could be different to cause it not to work. If you want, give this a try... Follow the link in my last post to the viewer. Make sure the URL has more after the view.html. It should be somewhat longish. Then enter this into the address bar (replacing the URL).
javascript:alert(window.location.href);alert(window.mapdata)
first window....lots o crap and yes stuff after the view......second window...only a ! triangle thing.no text of any kind...
"im going to have a friend check it too......but juat a few thoughts....preloder maby? add or maby interfering? are you shure that thies "images" are being pointed to by the url? (i dont realy know how this stuff works)i got the back ground...and the super long url....but none of the widgits..it was blank...but yes basicly you have my idea on this part...."
The preloader was my first thought. It redirects you to a web page that it creates - in other words it could be interpreted as having no URL. That's why I had you check the viewer. That doesn't have a preloader. I've narrowed it down to being in the code that extracts the parts of the URL. That isn't my code, it is just a stock library I downloaded, so I'll have to read through it to see what it's doing.
"as far as this goes ...yes tool tip is what i meant...if you need some art work i can also help with that...just need the .extion you need etc...also another point....in the main tool youll need a link to "your display page" or a way to grab the link...as far as mayors updating the page....realy the end product is the url line...so he/she would only need to repost that where ever they posted it..."
For the tooltip, I was just thinking of "floating numbers" that followed the mouse around. Something that contrasts with the background, so it is easily readable. It wouldn't work for all browsers, but the normal display would still work.
For getting the URL, what it does right now is opens a new window. That way you can see that it looks right, and copy the URL out of the address bar of that window.
I'll poke around at code. May have a few things for you to try and see if they work on your browser.