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Scott Mueller replied on August 30, 2009 20:34 to the question "Is there a way to maintain the quality as a deepzoom image zooms?" in Microsoft Live Labs:

I've never used deepzoomtools.dll, so I'm not sure what it's capable of... but I'm sure you can create deep zoom images using png files for lossless tiles.

I'm curious why you chose a tile size of 254 pixels?

Scott Mueller started following the question "using the Seadragon Windows Azure service" in Microsoft Live Labs.

Scott Mueller started following the problem "Seadragon Ajax image quality seems bad in IE, good in all other browsers" in Microsoft Live Labs.

Scott Mueller replied on July 28, 2009 09:26 to the question "Is it possible to follow a path smoothly like in Google Earth?" in Microsoft Live Labs:

Just came across this old request in trying to find that link I gave. I've implemented this technique for smoothly flying from 1 point to another in seadragon ajax at www.appletree.com. If anyone wants to implement this, feel free to copy my code for it.

Scott Mueller replied on June 09, 2009 23:18 to the question "How do you stop an animation?" in Microsoft Live Labs:

If you want to get a slow start -> fast middle -> slow ending, check out my implementation at www.appletree.com. I wait until the mouse is clicked or the scrollwheel is moved to stop the animation, but it should be fairly easy to change this to whenever the mouse enters the element or is moved:
function stopDemoAnimation() {
Seadragon.Utils.removeEvent(viewer.elmt, "click", stopDemoAnimation);
Seadragon.Utils.removeEvent(viewer.elmt, "mousewheel", stopDemoAnimation);
if (_timerId > 0)
window.clearInterval(_timerId);
if (_newTransitionTimerId > 0)
window.clearTimeout(_newTransitionTimerId);
}

Scott Mueller replied on June 05, 2009 16:54 to the question "Using seadragon ajax library link in an https secure page possible?" in Microsoft Live Labs:

It's not a big deal for me to host 1 javascript file, no need to zip it up :). I'm already using my own custom button images. I just remember reading that you guys preferred people reference the hosted seadragon javascript file rather than host it themselves.

Please let me know when https is working so I can reference that on my https pages. For now I'll continue to reference your hosted version on my http pages.

Scott Mueller asked a question in Microsoft Live Labs on June 02, 2009 22:32:

Using seadragon ajax library link in an https secure page possible?

I like the idea of relying on the microsoft to host the seadragon library. An update was made a while ago to seadragon and I didn't have to do anything, that was nice. But now I need to use seadragon in some https secure webpages and https://seadragon.com/ajax/0.8/seadra... doesn't work. Is there a different secure url I should use? Or am I now required to host the library myself?

Scott Mueller started following the question "Seadragon Ajax License?" in Microsoft Live Labs.

Scott Mueller replied on April 13, 2009 10:11 to the question "Bug in full page mode crashes seadragon, requires page reload" in Microsoft Live Labs:

sorry for the late thank you response... everything looks good now! My app is ready right now, but I'd rather wait to give you the URL until my redesign is finished this coming week :).

Scott Mueller replied on March 18, 2009 18:53 to the question "Is it possible to follow a path smoothly like in Google Earth?" in Microsoft Live Labs:

Your first answer was the correct one! That's exactly what I was looking for and works perfect. Thanks again Aseem, you've been a huge help.

Scott Mueller replied on March 17, 2009 19:36 to the question "Is it possible to follow a path smoothly like in Google Earth?" in Microsoft Live Labs:

Hi Aseem, everything works perfect now, thanks! One remaining issue is with the scroll-wheel. I stop navigating around the tree when someone clicks basically handing over the controls to them. But I don't know how to stop navigating (or call a method) when someone moves their scroll wheel. So right now, if someone only moves their scroll wheel without clicking, the navigation appears to jump all over the place. Is there a function I can call similar to this?

Seadragon.Utils.addEvent(viewer.elmt, "scrollwheel", stopDemoAnimation);

Scott Mueller replied on March 05, 2009 04:48 to the question "Bug in full page mode crashes seadragon, requires page reload" in Microsoft Live Labs:

I'm excited for the update!

Scott Mueller replied on March 05, 2009 04:47 to the question "Is it possible to follow a path smoothly like in Google Earth?" in Microsoft Live Labs:

Thanks Aseem! The virtual earth sample is perfect for my needs, even though the path does feel like sharp right angles and is slow. Actually the slowness is great as it gives the browser time to load the images. Making the path an arc is pretty easy, but the problem is the spring mechanism in seadragon ajax. At each joint of the path the animation slows down, hits the point and then accelerates. I'd even be happy with a V path that has the opposite of the spring mechanism to begin and then the normal spring mechanism on the other leg of the journey.

So I guess you're suggesting to use panTo and zoomTo in immediate mode and then have a loop that does the animation? What's the best way to set a timer to do the animation?

Scott Mueller asked a question in Microsoft Live Labs on March 04, 2009 11:03:

Is it possible to follow a path smoothly like in Google Earth?

This article describes my issue perfectly, actually quite a coincidence one of you guys wrote this at the time I tried implementing this functionality:
http://blogs.msdn.com/lutzg/archive/2...

Can this be achieved with Seadragon Ajax easily?

Scott Mueller replied on March 04, 2009 10:54 to the question "Bug in full page mode crashes seadragon, requires page reload" in Microsoft Live Labs:

Hi Aseem, thanks for following up. I'm anxious to get this fix. For whatever reason it happens very frequently with my application.

Scott Mueller replied on February 11, 2009 23:33 to the problem "Form fields in custom controls are disabled in IE 7" in Microsoft Live Labs:

You try simply creating a new dialog_window without display:none?
dialogWindow = $('<div class="dialog_window">....</div>').get()[0];

Scott Mueller replied on February 09, 2009 10:10 to the question "How do I add an event handler for a click without dragging?" in Microsoft Live Labs:

This is a perfectly acceptable workaround for me and doing this for each link is fine. However, I notice now when using MouseTracker (with or without that stopEvent handler) in Safari AND FIREFOX 3.0.6 (on mac) I get the following message when I click anywhere:
"localhost:8080
Sorry, but Seadragon Ajax can't run on your browser!
Please try using IE 7 or Firefox 3."

I may have not noticed this before because I was testing on a PC? If a stop event handler was added to the link, the link is followed so that's good. I think I do but am not sure I understand this whole stopping the click event so a parent node doesn't cancel it concept, I'm pretty new to javascript and have no idea how event propogation works.

Regarding wanting to apply the click handler to check if a node was clicked on the whole viewer.elmt, which includes controls, I guess I'd prefer this not to include the navigation controls or my edit button as 2 different actions happening with a mouse click can be confusing. But my other 2 controls are text messages (1 only fades in when the zoom level passes a threshold) and I would expect click in that area to apply to the visualization.

Scott Mueller replied on February 09, 2009 09:17 to the question "Bug in full page mode crashes seadragon, requires page reload" in Microsoft Live Labs:

Excellent, I can't wait to try it! One thing a little strange is that I run into this problem a lot lately even though my visualization changes in size quite a bit. Though I can't reproduce this with the sample visualizations on the seadragon site.

Scott Mueller replied on February 08, 2009 11:04 to the question "Why does zIndex for full-screen mode have to be so high?" in Microsoft Live Labs:

my css might be helpful in addition to the javascript for anyone wanting to implement this:

.chooser {
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
position: relative;
}
.chooser .underlay {
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
background-color: black;
filter:alpha(opacity=70);
opacity: 0.7;
-moz-opacity:0.7;
}
.chooser .box {
width: 450px;
border: solid 3px black;
background-color: #ddf;
font-size: 1.7em;
position: absolute;
top: 0px;
left: 0px;
}
.chooser h3 {
font-size: 1.7em;
margin: 0px;
background-color: #bbf;
}

Scott Mueller replied on February 08, 2009 10:59 to the question "Why does zIndex for full-screen mode have to be so high?" in Microsoft Live Labs:

Sorry, getsatisfaction's html parser didn't agree with my code... Here's a link to the code:
http://jsbin.com/uratu/edit