[OpenLayers-Users] Changing the Layer displayed by a WMS

[Jon Blower]

Hi Chris,

Thanks for this - I've built my own OpenLayers.js from the SVN repository as
you suggest and everything is fine.

Cheers, Jon 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Schmidt [mailto:crschmidt at crschmidt.net] 
> Sent: 24 July 2006 12:30
> To: jdb at mail.nerc-essc.ac.uk
> Cc: users at openlayers.org
> Subject: Re: [OpenLayers-Users] Changing the Layer displayed by a WMS
> 
> On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 08:16:22AM +0100, 
> jdb at mail.nerc-essc.ac.uk wrote:
> > Dear Christopher,
> > 
> > The changeParams() function is exactly what I need.  However, this 
> > function does not seem to be available in either the 1.0 release of 
> > OpenLayers
> > (http://openlayers.org/download/OpenLayers-1.0.tar.gz) or 
> the latest 
> > version that's hosted on the web 
> > (http://openlayers.org/api/OpenLayers.js).  The function 
> *does* appear 
> > if I link to the version of OpenLayers.js that is used in 
> the examples 
> > section of the website 
> (http://openlayers.org/dev/lib/OpenLayers.js).
> > 
> > Is the changeParams() function still somewhat experimental? 
>  (Seems to 
> > work for me anyway!)
> 
> Jon -- 
> 
> Sorry, I'm so used to building out of SVN that I've forgotten 
> how feature-different SVN is from the release. Indeed, 
> changeParams is not in any released version of OpenLayers, 
> only in subversion. The /dev/lib/OpenLayers.js will always be 
> a subversion version of OpenLayers, but it is a multi-file, 
> rather than single-file, version.
> 
> Schuyler and I have been lamenting the lack of a new release 
> for a couple weeks now, and I think that this email is 
> evidence that we need to move more seriously on this. In the 
> meantime, you can use the /dev/lib/OpenLayers.js file, and we 
> will send an announcement to the list when we do so so that 
> you have a non-development version to use.
> Alternatively, in the meantime, you can build your own single 
> file version, which I recommend if your site is going to be 
> used for anything other than testing -- the non-single file 
> version does need to load a lot of files in order to work, so 
> it does take a noticably long time to get started the first 
> time you visit the page.
> 
> Sorry for the inconvenience, and we'll work on getting a new 
> release out ASAP.
> 
> --
> Christopher Schmidt
> Web Developer
>