Close one widget when another is opened

MartynSmith

My goal is to have "WidgetA" and "WidgetB" mutually exlusive (in fact really I only want to allow one widget open at a time). I found some code from RSchleitin's "widgets communications" thread that Robert posted to close one widget when another is opened:

for each (var widgetId:Number in ViewerContainer.getInstance().widgetManager.getAllLoadedWidgetIds()) {     if(ViewerContainer.getInstance().widgetManager.getWidget(widgetId).widgetTitle == "WidgetA")     AppEvent.dispatch(AppEvent.WIDGET_CLOSE, widgetId); }

Inserted above code into "WidgetB" it works great and closes "WidgetA" when "WidgetB" is opened.  I put the same code in  "WidgetA" (except exchanged for "WidgetB"). 

The problem is, if I open "WidgetB" ("WidgetA" closes), then open "WidgetA" again, both widgets remain open.  Any ideas on why this doesn't work both ways?

rscheitlin

Martyn,

   Then go to the WidgetTemplate in the code ad add one:

<viewer:WidgetTemplate id="wTemplate"                            open="wTemplate_openHandler(event)"                            width="300" height="300"                            closed="AppEvent.dispatch(AppEvent.TOC_HIDDEN)"                            minimized="AppEvent.dispatch(AppEvent.TOC_HIDDEN)">

            import com.esri.viewer.ViewerContainer;             protected function wTemplate_openHandler(event:Event):void             {                 for each (var widgetId:Number in ViewerContainer.getInstance().widgetManager.getAllLoadedWidgetIds())                 {                     if(ViewerContainer.getInstance().widgetManager.getWidget(widgetId).widgetTitle == "WidgetA")                         AppEvent.dispatch(AppEvent.WIDGET_CLOSE, widgetId);                 }             }