[Gwt-openlayers-devl] [Patch Review Request] Make mapOptions.setAttribute methods public

[Farrukh N. <fa...@we...>]

I could not use the mapOptions.setAttribute calls as they were protected 
not public.
Is there a good reason for not making them public or is it just an 
oversight?

Attached is a suggested patch to make the methods public. Please let me 
know if it makes sense to commit it.
Thanks.

Curtis Jensen wrote:
> zIndexes are how CSS defines what div blocks appear on top of 
> overlapping div blocks.  It's the normal concept of 3D space 
> coordinates, where the z axis is perpendicular to the screen.  The 
> highest zIndex will be on top.  I'm not expert either, this is the 
> basics of what I know.
>
> It's isn't difficult to change the default zIndexes of OpenLayers (but 
> is was difficult for me figure it out).  It is very likely that 
> someone else knows a better way. In my case, I was actually trying to 
> make the map go lower in the z ordering.  You may want yours to go 
> higher.  I used FireBug (Firefox plugin) to find the zIndex of the 
> objects that were conflicting with my map.  It took me a little while 
> to find where OpenLayers was setting it's z indexes.  They have a set 
> of base indexes, and then build from there.  If you over write the 
> defaults, you can modify the z ordering of OpenLayers objects.
>
> This is the code I used:
>
>         // OpenLayers default Z bases are 1000, 250, 750, 2000
> private native JSObject getLowerMapZBase() /*-{
> return { BaseLayer: -1000, Overlay: -750, Popup: -500, Control: 0 };
> }-*/;
>
>        MapOptions mapOptions = new MapOptions();
>        mapOptions.setAttribute("Z_INDEX_BASE", getLowerMapZBase());
>
>
>


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Farrukh

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