I wonder, if it would be possible to show a "toast" popup message on top of WorldMap ? Would be nice, if it would support: multi line, choosable (at least background-) colour, timeout (seconds), set to be user-closable only. Optionally: Settable to close it on 1 browser window only, so it woul…

Well if you embed worldmap inside your own web page as an iframe (eg using dashboard2) then you have control of the rest of the page and can probably popup whatever you like.

[image] dceejay: embed worldmap inside your own web page as an iframe (eg using dashboard2) then you have control of the rest of the page Or UIBUILDER of course! Where you really do get full control. :wink:

I don't think I mentioned his name three times did I ?

[image] dceejay: I don't think I mentioned his name three times did I No need: I lurk, therefore I am!

< OFF > I have always followed your progress about DashBoard2. Also watched the how-to-first-steps video last week. This is an amazing piece of module, and one day I'll have to start learning it, how to use it, but at first view it is too complicated for my basic knowledge about html + css. @Tot…

If there is no ready-to-use toast solution, I'll probably have to: change the code of worldmap.js itself and upload as a separate NPM to fit my needs. (That's what ChatGPT suggested too.)

[image] PizzaProgram: I'm not a web-developer and seeing the "default template" made me realise: it's an overkill for what I need and that learning process about the whole thing would probably take month if not years to understand how everything works. No problem, that post wasn't aimed at an…

I may be able to add some form of dialog as the basics are there for the help panel. But will be a while until I get some time and probably won’t easily styled apart from rewriting the css file

Is it also difficult to allow to run "command": {"js" : ...} ? The map would run that JavaScript code, so we could do anything as we want.

I've just found out: Leaflet has a ready-to-use Map interaction plugin for toast messages: :trophy: Leaflet.Notifications Try Demo << here.

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... just in case someone else finds this topic, and also for myself to remember:

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