Re: Changing size of the bitmaps

[James Shanks <James_Shanks@TIVOLI.COM>]

You can try anything you want, but NetView, as it stands was designed to draw a
logical map based upon the connections of objects in a network.  It does not
know or care about their physical location.  That is a human (or geographical)
consideration which was not designed into the product.    You might bet lucky
with your approach and get it to work in the case that you want, but that would
not mean that you can get it to work in all cases.  The position of things on
the background is only approximate.   There is nothing in the topology database
to tie an icon to  background map -- if there were then you could not add or
remove backgrounds at will.  I suggest that you simple open the read-write map
and add a background to an existing submap, resize the window, and see what I am
talking about.   Those are the limitations you will have to work with.

James Shanks
Tivoli (NetView for UNIX) L3 Support



Bob Stamm <Robert_Stamm@RES.RAYTHEON.COM> on 02/01/2000 10:06:31 AM

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This behaviour makes it difficult to use a floorplan as a background.
Imagine the situation where one might
create a diagram of a floorplan and try to locate icons at the appropriate
locations according to their organization.

If the floorplan doesn't scale along with the icons the effort would be
futile.

Can you do such a thing but perhaps force the display of a submap to have a
minimum/maximum size so the window
can't be rescaled?

I have written an app that builds a submap placing icons at pre-determined
coordinates based on a file that
includes information such as icon type (class), x & y coordinates, label,
hostname, etc.  It works well but based on what
you've said it would be impossible to overlay that onto a background that's
meaningful.





James Shanks <James_Shanks@TIVOLI.COM> on 02/01/2000 08:39:51 AM

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Right, but what you cannot do is tell NetView to use a smaller icon bitmap
so
that things will look better against your backrgound gif.  There is no
mechanism
to size the two in unison.    NetView determines how big your icon should
be by
how many you have on the map, and selects the largest bit map he can from
those
available in the bitmaps directory, whether you have  a background gif or
not.
The background is sized independently by how big the map window is and will
be
that size no matter how many icons you have on the screen.  The background
gif
is just window filler, in effect.

James Shanks
Tivoli (NetView for UNIX) L3 Support



Bob Stamm <Robert_Stamm@RES.RAYTHEON.COM> on 02/01/2000 08:31:27 AM

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If you look at the directory /usr/OV/bitmaps/C you'll see collections of
files like modem.32.p and modem.32.m.  They'll be about
five modem files ... think of the p and m as plus and minus, one file is
the size 32 positive (white) overlay of a icon bitmap  and the .m
files is the minus (black) overlay of the same bitmap.  Use the bitmap
editor in X to look at these files.

You need to create a set of different bitmaps that will be used when the
symbol is resized.  Then when you resize your submap
the appropriate icon size will be used.





erika ocaqa <eocana@YAHOO.COM> on 01/31/2000 10:18:01 PM

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Hi all.

Does someone know how can i change the size of the bitmaps?, my problem is
that i have a background that is the map of the locations in the
enterprise,  but when we put the map, the symbols are bigger than the
locations of the map. Thanks in advanced.

Best Regards

Erika


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Hi all.

Does someone know how can i change the size of the bitmaps?, my problem is that i have a background that is the map of the locations in the enterprise,  but when we put the map, the symbols are bigger than the locations of the map. Thanks in advanced.

Best Regards

Erika

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