University of Cambridge

[Aady]

Hi,

Comparative Genomics Deptt, University of Cambridge has launched Laszlo based application.

It is the initial release; many more features are planned for the future releases.

Though it is aimed for chromosome mapping researchers, anyone is welcome to comment on the look and feel; all your suggesstions for the improvement of the site is welcome.

http://www.chromhome.org/

thanks

Dr. Sridevi Nagarajan
Department of Veterinary Medicine
University of Cambridge
Madingley Road
Cambridge CB3 0ES , UK

[notzippy]

Nice, my only annoyance would be that you used windows for your 3 different view-ports, this causes the mouse pointer to be always a hand which doesnt look proper to me..

[Aady]

That is a good suggestion.

BTW, how to get rid of that "hand" mouse pointer, without much rework.

Any advice?

thanks

[notzippy]

Two different ways:
1) Use views rather then windows (But you will use the border) You should be able to use boxview.lzx to provide the border (in incubator)
2) Set the mouse cursor manually (inside the window) like

<window>
<handler name="onmouseover">
<![CDATA[
LzCursor.showHandCursor(false);
]]>
</handler>
</window>

[Aady]

Thanks for the code.

We tried with the "handler" code snippet. It works fine. The "hand" disappeared. And the regular arrow appears now.

But the only issue is, it is the normal "arrow pointer" everywhere.

But we require the "hand" or a different symbol whenever the mouse pointer is on specific UI elements like "tree nodes", "button", "tabsliders". And on other parts of the window, the arrow symbol is preferred.

Is there any way to achieve this? I thought that would be the natural behavior of the mouse movements.

thanks

[notzippy]

Yes, thats the problem with option 2..
The better fix would be to use option 1 and avoid windows all together. There is a bug report in JIRA about this but I dont believe it has been resolved yet..
So try changing the <window> -> <boxview>...

[laszfellow]

Everytime I click on the [Visitors:] button, it increases the count by one. So far, I have clicked it three times and it's now 75 - so you need to subtract 3 from that number to compensate for my extra clicks.

[Aady]

Thanks for the observation.

Please do not worry about the absolute number on the counter.

We use "EasyCounter", and record the data for the number "unique visitors" also.

BTW, it is not a commercial site and fortunately, as such we do not have the pressure to show a bloated number !

The counter is provided for us to have some data to enable architectural changes, if need be.

thanks