Placeholder in Input box on Compare Tool

[ymondal]

There was a request to change the placeholder text in the URI box of the compare tool. (See below)

I tried directly setting the CSS placeholder attribute (see above). How is this input box being generated? I'm having trouble finding it in index.js.

[danrademacher]

Hmm, Eric split that menu out as a separate repo for reuse and it looks like that's for sure set here: https://github.com/stamen/legend-layer-menu/blob/5e6427e00016812096a7f1c717b3f41025373e3e/src/legend-layer-menu.js#L40

which gets pulled into your code on build by this line: https://github.com/stamen/ecoengine-compare/blob/a21e76ef46780d8cc2619e9628e666225610c4b6/bower.json#L31

We have an ecoengine branch of that, so we could change the copy here: https://github.com/stamen/legend-layer-menu/blob/5e6427e00016812096a7f1c717b3f41025373e3e/src/legend-layer-menu.js#L40

But it might be better for you to fork the repo and change the bower.json to draw from your fork, so you can easily edit in the future.

[mkoo]

I dont know if the above pathways that Dan suggests holds true... confirm?

But we talked about going from this: GeoJSON API URL or Keyword to:
e.g., 'Puma concolor' or API URL

[syntagmatic]

I've tried to update this in the legend-layer-menu module, but it requires updating the bower package which is a process I'm unfamiliar with

https://github.com/stamen/legend-layer-menu

[syntagmatic]

@shoeswat @bkg

I ended up merging legend-layer-menu into Compare. It's at the top of index.js right now, but could be moved to its own JavaScript file. The reasons:

• Legend-layer-menu has Compare-specific code in it, like the placeholder text
• The process of updating legend-layer-menu isn't well-documented (it's a Bower package)
• Stamen abandoned work on legend-layer-menu as an independent component, so that repo won't evolve

So the legend-layer-menu repo and bower package will be deprecated. Once you pull the changes, you can go ahead and delete or archive Berkeley's version of the repo as well https://github.com/berkeley-gif/legend-layer-menu

[ymondal]

O yea, I pulled this just to make a change in the text box lol. I think it was requested at some point.

On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 7:02 PM, Kai [email protected] wrote:

@shoeswat https://github.com/shoeswat @bkg https://github.com/bkg

I ended up merging legend-layer-menu into Compare. It's at the top of index.js right now, but could be moved to its own JavaScript file. The reasons:

• Legend-layer-menu has Compare-specific code in it, like the placeholder text
• The process of updating legend-layer-menu isn't well-documented (it's a Bower package)
• Stamen abandoned work on legend-layer-menu as an independent component, so that repo won't evolve

[image: screen shot 2016-03-18 at 4 00 38 pm] https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/156229/13894156/45d0ad40-ed22-11e5-82da-b2b4c6287190.png

So the legend-layer-menu repo and bower package will be deprecated. Once you pull the changes, you can go ahead and delete or archive Berkeley's version of the repo as well https://github.com/berkeley-gif/legend-layer-menu

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