Plumbing in additional widgets eg google maps lat/long chooser

> Hi,
>
> How would one approach the problem of plumbing-in an external widget
> to Orbeon to fill in a form field?
>
> For example, to concretise the question, how would one plumb in a
> javascript widget which opened a new window containing a googlemap,
> allowed selection of a point and updated a pair of fields in the
> calling window with the selected latitude and longitude?
>
> is there anything similar in the examples?
>
>
> yours
> Tim
>
>
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> Tim,
>
> Using XBL. And since you are talking about a map component, Orbeon
> Forms already has one that does something similar to what you're
> describing. See:
>
> http://wiki.orbeon.com/forms/doc/developer-guide/xbl-components/map
>
> And if it doesn't do precisely what you want, you can extend it, or
> create your own component maybe starting from the existing map
> component.
>
> Alex
>
> On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 2:05 AM, Tim Pizey <[hidden email]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > How would one approach the problem of plumbing-in an external widget
> > to Orbeon to fill in a form field?
> >
> > For example, to concretise the question, how would one plumb in a
> > javascript widget which opened a new window containing a googlemap,
> > allowed selection of a point and updated a pair of fields in the
> > calling window with the selected latitude and longitude?
> >
> > is there anything similar in the examples?
> >
> >
> > yours
> > Tim
> >
> >
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> Hi Alex,
>
> I just tried this out, and it works very nicely, except for a bit of
> weird behaviour when I put the map component inside an xforms:repeat
> or an xxforms:dialog.
>
> I've attached a standalone xhtml page (spike-map.xhtml) using the map
> component within a dialog, which you should be able to run in your
> xform sandbox.
>
> What I see is that, when the dialog is shown, the map view is not
> correctly aligned with the position of the dialog.
>
> If, however, you set the value of the @visible attribute on the dialog
> to "true", which makes the dialog initially visible when the page
> first loads, then close the dialog, enter some location data, and show
> the dialog again using the trigger, then the map *is* correctly
> aligned.
>
> Any tips on a fix or workaround?
>
> I also tried to add a map component directly within the xforms:repeat,
> so that each site had its own map. I've attached another xhtml page
> (spike-map2.xhtml) demonstrating that. Again, that works well, except
> if I delete any of the repeat items, then add new items, the map
> doesn't appear.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> I haven't tried this on Orbeon 3.8, still on a 3.7 snapshot.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alistair
>
> On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 07:09:35PM -0700, Alessandro Vernet wrote:
>> Tim,
>>
>> Using XBL. And since you are talking about a map component, Orbeon
>> Forms already has one that does something similar to what you're
>> describing. See:
>>
>> http://wiki.orbeon.com/forms/doc/developer-guide/xbl-components/map
>>
>> And if it doesn't do precisely what you want, you can extend it, or
>> create your own component maybe starting from the existing map
>> component.
>>
>> Alex
>>
>> On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 2:05 AM, Tim Pizey <[hidden email]> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > How would one approach the problem of plumbing-in an external widget
>> > to Orbeon to fill in a form field?
>> >
>> > For example, to concretise the question, how would one plumb in a
>> > javascript widget which opened a new window containing a googlemap,
>> > allowed selection of a point and updated a pair of fields in the
>> > calling window with the selected latitude and longitude?
>> >
>> > is there anything similar in the examples?
>> >
>> >
>> > yours
>> > Tim
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>> --
>> Orbeon Forms - Web forms, open-source, for the Enterprise -
>> http://www.orbeon.com/
>> My Twitter: http://twitter.com/avernet
>
>>
> --
> Alistair Miles
> Centre for Genomics and Global Health <http://cggh.org>
> The Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics
> Roosevelt Drive
> Oxford
> OX3 7BN
> United Kingdom
> Web: http://purl.org/net/aliman
> Email: [hidden email]
> Tel: +44 (0)1865 287669
>

> Hi Alex, Alistair,
>
> So as to show the problem with least work I have deployed the examples.
>
> http://cloud1.cggh.org/manta/questionnaire/spike-map
>
> displays the point slightly off the screen, to the top left, rather
> than centralised.
> Also the dialogue is not completely filled.
> This behaviour on chrome, firefox and opera.
> My guess is that the google code is taking the central point of the
> map to be the top left hand corner.
> A colleague says that he has seen this when the google code starts
> torender before the div into
> which it is rendering is 'ready'.
> There is a strange interaction with firebug: open firebug and the map
> displays correctly but the pin still does not centre.
> This makes sense as it works if the dialog is not initially hidden.
>
> I noticed that the dialogue visibility is visible, rather than
> inherits, so hacking the visibility by enclosing the dialog is not
> available.
>
>
> http://cloud1.cggh.org/manta/questionnaire/spike-map2
>
> The problem here is when you add a repeating element and then delete
> it and then add another the new one does not contain a map.
> If you add one after that it does contain a map.
>
> Is there a way to send additional data through to the google api?
> I saw a brainstorming session here:
> http://wiki.orbeon.com/forms/projects/xforms-xbl-parameters-passing
> but there is no mention of parameter passing on the map page.
>
>
> Any thoughts would be most welcome.
>
> yours
> Tim Pizey
>
>
>
>
> On 2 June 2010 15:24, Alistair Miles  wrote:
>> Hi Alex,
>>
>> I just tried this out, and it works very nicely, except for a bit of
>> weird behaviour when I put the map component inside an xforms:repeat
>> or an xxforms:dialog.
>>
>> I've attached a standalone xhtml page (spike-map.xhtml) using the map
>> component within a dialog, which you should be able to run in your
>> xform sandbox.
>>
>> What I see is that, when the dialog is shown, the map view is not
>> correctly aligned with the position of the dialog.
>>
>> If, however, you set the value of the @visible attribute on the dialog
>> to "true", which makes the dialog initially visible when the page
>> first loads, then close the dialog, enter some location data, and show
>> the dialog again using the trigger, then the map *is* correctly
>> aligned.
>>
>> Any tips on a fix or workaround?
>>
>> I also tried to add a map component directly within the xforms:repeat,
>> so that each site had its own map. I've attached another xhtml page
>> (spike-map2.xhtml) demonstrating that. Again, that works well, except
>> if I delete any of the repeat items, then add new items, the map
>> doesn't appear.
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>>
>> I haven't tried this on Orbeon 3.8, still on a 3.7 snapshot.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Alistair
>>
>> On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 07:09:35PM -0700, Alessandro Vernet wrote:
>>> Tim,
>>>
>>> Using XBL. And since you are talking about a map component, Orbeon
>>> Forms already has one that does something similar to what you're
>>> describing. See:
>>>
>>> http://wiki.orbeon.com/forms/doc/developer-guide/xbl-components/map
>>>
>>> And if it doesn't do precisely what you want, you can extend it, or
>>> create your own component maybe starting from the existing map
>>> component.
>>>
>>> Alex
>>>
>>> On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 2:05 AM, Tim Pizey <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>> > Hi,
>>> >
>>> > How would one approach the problem of plumbing-in an external widget
>>> > to Orbeon to fill in a form field?
>>> >
>>> > For example, to concretise the question, how would one plumb in a
>>> > javascript widget which opened a new window containing a googlemap,
>>> > allowed selection of a point and updated a pair of fields in the
>>> > calling window with the selected latitude and longitude?
>>> >
>>> > is there anything similar in the examples?
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > yours
>>> > Tim
>>> >
>>> >
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Orbeon Forms - Web forms, open-source, for the Enterprise -
>>> http://www.orbeon.com/
>>> My Twitter: http://twitter.com/avernet
>>
>>>
>> --
>> Alistair Miles
>> Centre for Genomics and Global Health <http://cggh.org>
>> The Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics
>> Roosevelt Drive
>> Oxford
>> OX3 7BN
>> United Kingdom
>> Web: http://purl.org/net/aliman
>> Email: [hidden email]
>> Tel: +44 (0)1865 287669
>>
>
> --
> Tim Pizey
> Centre for Genomics and Global Health <http://cggh.org>
> The Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics
> Roosevelt Drive
> Oxford
> OX3 7BN
> United Kingdom
> Web: http://pizey.net/~timp
> Tel: +44 (0)1865 287532
>
>
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