Re: Changing size of the bitmaps

[Bob Stamm <Robert_Stamm@RES.RAYTHEON.COM>]

Background maps are a poor way to teach geography, I agree but the idea of
having a background
can be used for much more (one would hope) then putting up a pretty
picture.  Let me explain.

Imagine an Air Traffic Control System (like I work on) and you have
consoles layed out in a specific
floorplan.  Controllers in one area work on aircraft flysing to the east,
on the other side of the room they
control those to the west, etc..  Behind them all on a raised floor are
several supervisory positions looking down into the main floor. In another
room is a set of Technical & Maintenance positions.  distributed about are
printers ... and other pieces of equipment.

A meaningful floorplan layout of where equipment is would model the
operational environment precisely
and show network maintenance personnel exactly where a failed piece of
equipment is.  Therefore when
one of possibly several hundred devices goes down that person knows where
to go to address the problem.  That's what it can be used for,  You might
also note the Computer Associates Unicenter
supports the capability to layout your network in a model depicting where
things really are, not some
conceptualized layout.

I'd love to create several submaps, each showing the location of things
like network printers, another showing where the radar track processors
are, another showing spuervisor positions,  you get the picture ... (no pun
intended).

If the size of a submap's window can be fixed then it seems NetView could
be made to operate with different submapa each depicting a portion of the
ATC System's floorplan.  Resizing of icons would then not be an issue since
when a specific map was displayed it would always be sized accordingly to
show the proper relation between the floorplan image and the icons
themselves.

Does anyone know if the size of a submap can be locked so the user can;t
resize it?





Leslie Clark <lclark@US.IBM.COM> on 02/01/2000 10:14:10 AM

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Subject:  Re: Changing size of the bitmaps






Netview also takes into account how far apart the icons are. You might get
some improvement if you spread them really far apart. Make sure you put
something right at the edges of the map. It will resize to keep an even
amount
of space around the edges while maintaining the relative spacing.

Of couse, once you get them to stay smaller, you probably won't have
labels.
There is an entry in OVw app-defaults to control the point at which they go
away.

Personally, I think the background gifs are a poor way to teach geography,
and
they don't help performance any. I would go for a relative arrangement with
good labels on location icons instead. Unless the tour group is coming
thru...


Cordially,

Leslie A. Clark
IBM Global Services - Systems Mgmt & Networking
Detroit
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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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