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Hi,
I have developed an 8 way navigation system to navigate across a grid of maps. I have the browser in the middle and for simplicity I have stationed the 8 navigation buttons in the margin surrounding the browser window. This is cool but it has reduced my browser area quiet a bit.

What I would like to do is go almost full card width with the browser window and float the buttons over it. Users can then scroll if they need to if something important is under the button. What do you think? It seems like the browser kind of demands that it sits up on top of everything else.

One other thing I haven't had much luck in is changing the size of the browser window once a browser instance has been initiated.

At present you are not able to place a control over a browser instance...

You can shrink and expand the browser instance so that it could show or hide your navigation buttons... I have attached a stack that shrinks and expands a browser instance, it should help get you started with what you wish to do...

be well

Dixie

Hey thanks Dixie! I think that might be pretty slick! I'll experiment around with that. Thanks again!
Dave

The code Dixie turned me on to got me started and allowed me to expand and shrink the browser window to show the navigation buttons in the margins. This is a big +. Thanks for that.

I was thinking about taking things a step farther.

The situation: Emergency Responders responding to a call will be given a map page on dispatch: There is a high probability that either the dispatched map pdf page or one of the surrounding 6 map pdf's will do the job and the user will then exit. I have written the code to identify the 6 surrounding map pages every time a user selects the page he wants.

The Question: I would like to experiment around with pre loading those 6 pages into ram so they load even faster if selected. Any ideas? Given the example you can understand that performance is this type of situation is key.

Other things to try: The Ap has a google map feature as well. Would like to have the "Target Hazards" be identified by push pins etc on the google map (that part I think I can handle) but then when you click on the push pin it would load a PDF in the browser that shows the floor plan of the building, hazards etc. I have been checking out the google API but havent quite figured this one out yet and i don't speak much java. (yet?)

Dave