Sample Map Viewer 1.3 Base Map Switcher Buttons

Question

Hi everyone,

I am looking for a way to add the Base Map Switcher buttons to my SMV 1.3 app, like the ones you see in the 2.0 Version. Does anybody out there have any idea how to do this?

I think this will be a lot easier for my users to just click on a button and the corresponding basemap will pop up rather than searching for the map in a drop-down menu.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

thanks

Josh Calhoun

FrankTrevino · Answer

Hello,
Not sure if this has been answered,  but I have a imagery basemap that I can activate by clicking it from the shortcut menu, my question is there a way to turn it off and just show my dynamic map service. Maybe by clicking on the basemap again to turn it off. Tried using the buttons, but I like keeping everything in the shortcutmenu bar. I basically would like to toggle on/off the basemap.

Thanks.

RobertScheitlin__GISP · Answer

Josh,

Try this instead. The mistake you were making is you were trying to compare a string to a layer object and they would never equal.private function setBasemap(basemap:String):void
            {
                var lyr:Layer = SiteContainer.getInstance().controller.map.getLayer("Leaf Collection Map");
                var lyr2:Layer = SiteContainer.getInstance().controller.map.getLayer("Recycle Collection Map");
                var lyr3:Layer = SiteContainer.getInstance().controller.map.getLayer("Garbage Collection Map");
                switch(basemap)
                {
                    case "Leaf Collection Map":
                    {
                        lyr.visible = true;
                        lyr2.visible = false;
                        lyr3.visible = false;
                        break;
                    }
                    case "Recycle Collection Map":
                    {
                        lyr.visible = false;
                        lyr2.visible = true;
                        lyr3.visible = false;
                        break;
                    }
                    case "Garbage Collection Map":
                    {
                        lyr.visible = false;
                        lyr2.visible = false;
                        lyr3.visible = true;
                        break;
                    }
                }
            }

JoshCalhoun · Answer

Ok,,, I was able to toggle between two maps with no problem but now my boss wants three map to toggle between. I tried adding a third map and I used a case statement to switch between maps. Now I can not switch any map and the map I had at the bottom of the list shows up in the map. I can still switch maps in the "menumap" menu but I can not toggle back and fourth between maps. Below is my code. @Embed(source='com/esri/solutions/flexviewer/assets/images/icons/fall_leaf.png') web_map_icon_BEFORE.png web_map_icon_AFTER.png