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AsciiSmoke · Aug 03, 2006, 03:26 PM // 15:26

Hey guys,

I've put together a little map zoomer widget for the Tyria map posted by TC Fish. When you load it you'll have to wait for 2.5 mb large map to be loaded in the back-ground. Just wait till the Ascalon city area is shown zoomed-in.

View: http://www.novelid.co.uk/MapZoomer/Zoomer.htm

Source: http://www.novelid.co.uk/MapZoomer/MapZoomer.rar

Lemme know what you think. I've not had time to put in many shortcuts and it doesn't yet work in FireFox. If anyone wants to update it with a full list of cities links can you send me the co-ords or the updated code.

Cheers

AsciiSmoke

blackjoker4215 · Aug 03, 2006, 03:33 PM // 15:33

Cool, are you going to make it for firefox?

Zakarr · Aug 03, 2006, 03:40 PM // 15:40

I don't want to be an ass but do you use non-standard code or something because it works only with IE?

tommarrow · Aug 03, 2006, 04:36 PM // 16:36

If you read the title of the thread you will see it says IE only.
I will take a look at this when I get home from work. Thanks Ascii.

Mr Toraan · Aug 03, 2006, 05:16 PM // 17:16

You can use it in firefox. Just download the IE page extension which can be found here Enjoy!

AsciiSmoke · Aug 03, 2006, 06:04 PM // 18:04

Hey guys,

I know I'm lazy but I just threw this together and got it working. I thought I'd put the idea out there and see if anyone liked it before putting any more into it.

The code's pretty basic and you're all welcome to do anything to it you like.
Just trying to give something back

AsciiSmoke

SaladFork · Aug 03, 2006, 06:12 PM // 18:12

http://www.stopie.com

I like the idea, and I can definitely see myself using it more often if more features are implemented. You can now detect scrollwheel movements using javascript, see if you can use that to zoom in/out, or change the opacity ratios.

~Salad

AsciiSmoke · Aug 04, 2006, 09:15 AM // 09:15

OK, I've made some headway in getting it to work in FireFox by cleaning up some of my Javascript. However it's still a long way off. Can someone else pick this up for me and get it going in FF?

I'll try and look at it a little more later but for now I've gotta do some real work.

AsciiSmoke

Bartuc Galadwor · Aug 04, 2006, 12:32 PM // 12:32

I think it would be better if the window that it magnifies it in was not transparent. I dunno if you could do that, but it would be alot easier to see the magnified map.

AsciiSmoke · Aug 04, 2006, 02:04 PM // 14:04

OK, Small update for you guys.

* Due to popular demand (

) you can now change the window transparency from 20% to 80% using the mousewheel.
* I've redone the images so they're cleaner but slightly larger file sizes
* Added in some more quick links to cities.

AsciiSmoke

EDIT: added in a full 100% opacity setting

AsciiSmoke · Aug 04, 2006, 04:31 PM // 16:31

Right, last update before the weekend.

I've had an especially dull Friday afternoon here at the office so I flicked through the map and added shortcuts to all the places I could find. I'm sure there's a bunch that aren't shown on the map so any further help with those'd be good.

This should now be of some use helping you find places as well as a funky little widgeetty thing.

Enjoy!

AsciiSmoke

AsciiSmoke · Aug 07, 2006, 02:35 PM // 14:35

Hey guys,

For anyone still interested, I've re-done the zoomer to show the zoomed map as big as the small map. Me and a buddy were trying to use it over the weekend to find a path from one place to another and realised that the little window was just too small.

Here's the new version: http://novelid.co.uk/MapZoomer2/Zoomer2.htm

Still to come:
* Fix the city shortcuts
* Add in region shortcuts

ghoztspook · Aug 07, 2006, 06:57 PM // 18:57

I like the old one better.
But i agree that the window needs to be bigger, not by much mind.