Today I decided to work on a design for this site. I’ve always disliked designing for myself. None of the work I do for myself ever seems to meet the high expectations I want to achieve for my own personal self expression. After abandoning several attempts, I poked through the WordPress theme repository and fingered through my worn copy of ‘the Zen of CSS Design’ to try and absorb a bit of visual inspiration. With renewed motivation, I popped open an empty PhotoShop document and went to work, only to end in yet another unsatisfying attempt. Frustrated, I took a step back and stared at the mess of designs in front of me. Suddenly I realized where I was going wrong. It’s all in the navigation! Read More
Monthly Archives: February 2006
GEvent order of events
Filed under Knowledge
One of the nice features of the Google Map’s API is that you can add your own event listeners to do things when certain events are triggered on the map. It’s quite easy to do using either the GEvent.addListener() or the GEvent.bind() methods, but tying to guess the exact order the events will trigger is a whole different story.
I was recently working on a project that required the map to fetch points within the viewport after it had been moved or dragged. This is easy enough to do by adding a listener for the moveEnd event and using the GXmlHttp object to query the server, but things didn’t go so smoothly once I started zooming the map in and out. When zooming out, the points that cam back were only within the original window at the previous zoom, not the new zoom. I tracked the problem down to the fact that the map triggers the moveEnd event prior to triggering the zoom event so my map was fetching point before the zoom!
I started to wonder just what the order of events where so I whipped up this little map to capture the order. Basically it’s just has an event listener for each possible event so just click, move and zoom to see what happens. It can be very enlightening to see just what events are triggered at which times. (Just for fun I’ve also included some of the undocumented events)
It’s Alive
Filed under Miscellaneous
Step 1 wordpress installed - check.
I know this is almost the default vanilla design and setup but I’ve been very busy at work so I’ve been pulling some late nights trying to catch up and I’ve had little time to do much else. Hopefully I’ll be able to post every few days as I have lots of ideas and I’ll get to the templates whenever I have a bit of time to play :c)