Not all quiet on the MapGuide Maestro front

Just because MapGuide Maestro is a windows-only .net application does not mean the Maestro API driving it (and your own custom MapGuide applications using the Maestro API) need to bear the same platform constraint.

We have .net Core to run .net code cross-platform. We have .net standard as a specification for building truly cross-platform .net class libraries. The API surface used by the MaestroAPI highly intersects with what is provided by .net standard. All the signs say that we have the means to make MaestroAPI a truly cross-platform .net standard compatible class library, and that we should probably do it.

So since the last release, my main focus has been to port the Maestro API to target .net standard 2.0, thus expanding its potential reach beyond full .net Framework on windows.

It is most encouraging to see this on a Linux terminal after all this effort.

The tale of getting to this point is worthy of a blog post itself. The internet could do with more .net standard porting stories.

Announcing: mapguide-react-layout 0.10

Here's a new release of mapguide-react-layout with a metric bucketload of new features.

QuickPlot now feature complete

As blogged previously, the final missing piece of the QuickPlot (capture box rotation) has been implemented, bringing this component to feature parity with the Fusion original. The rotation being controlled through a new numerical slider in the QuickPlot UI

Selection Panel sub-selection

Through creative use of QUERYMAPFEATURES, the Selection Panel can now support highlighting selected features within a selection set. Useful for visually sifting through big selections.

Persistent Load Indicator

A user raised a very valid point that if you don't have the navigator (aka. Zoom slider) active, there is no actual load indicator visible as the only place we have a load indicator is on the navigator component itself.

This release adds a persistent load indicator that is represented by a thin blue animated bar at the top.

Blink and you might miss it in the GIF below.

Coordinate Tracker

This release includes the missing Coordinate Tracker widget.

Init Warnings

Any warnings that we encounter during viewer initialization are now collected and displayed at the end. Here's some warnings that could be shown.

API enhancements

• NPM module: Now supports custom redux application state and reducers. Check out the updated example to see how this is done.
• NPM module: Selection Panel supports custom rendering of the body when a selected feature is to be displayed (if you don't like the default table-based attribute display)
• NPM module: There is now a flat "mapguide-react-layout" module where you can import everything from, instead of having to import everything piecemeal.
• Browser Globals: You can now specify locale as a mount option
• Browser Globals: You can now specify a post-init hook function as a mount option
• Browser Globals: Redux getState and dispatch functions exposed through MapGuide.Application class
• Browser Globals: All dispatchable redux actions available under MapGuide.Actions namespace
• Browser Globals: You can now retrieve and invoke registered commands through getCommand()

Other Changes

• OpenLayers updated to 4.3.2
• Blueprint updated to 1.27
• Now built with TypeScript 2.5
• Removed es6-promise from the viewer bundle. All template HTML files script include the es6-promise polyfill separately so that the viewer will continue to work in Internet Explorer
• Ported across the view size status bar component
• Full extension property support for the CursorPosition widget

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