topic Widget Dock? in ArcGIS API for Flex Questions

Widget Dock?

philippschnetzer — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 12:19:33 GMT

Is there any plan to have some type of widget dock as was the case in the SFV1.3? I am finding it much more time consuming to handle several widgets on the screen at once...

...plus, having widgets open towards the right means they need to be 'stacked' on the left of the screen 😕

Re: Widget Dock?

JoshuaKalov — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 13:29:02 GMT

There are actually 2 dock locations in FlexViewer2. You can have the dock on the right side like in 1.3 and/or on the bottom. You can use either, both, or none.

From the ArcGIS Viewer for Flex Samples page, if you click on "Widget Container Layouts" it should give you more information. (I can't seem to be able to link directly to it.)

Re: Widget Dock?

BjornSvensson — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 13:37:06 GMT

The layout of the widgetcontainer can be specified as vertical (similar to SFV) or horizontal (ditto but at the bottom) or float (the default where widgets can be moved around) or fixed (where end-users can not move the widgets.

See the Viewer Resource Center -> Samples -> Widget container layouts:
http://help.arcgis.com/en/webapps/flexviewer/samples/index.html#layouts.htm

Re: Widget Dock?

JoshuaKalov — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 13:41:11 GMT

The layout of the widgetcontainer can be specified as vertical (similar to SFV) or horizontal (ditto but at the bottom) or float (the default where widgets can be moved around) or fixed (where end-users can not move the widgets.

See the Viewer Resource Center -> Samples -> Widget container layouts:
http://help.arcgis.com/en/webapps/flexviewer/samples/index.html#layouts.htm

This is somewhat off topic, but the Samples page in the Resource Center always takes a long time to load for me.

More on topic, why is there no code on these samples? When you click on that Widget container layouts, you can see what the different layouts look like, but you can't see the code to enable them. At the very least those Flex Apps should have right-click view source enabled or have the "Source Code" tab like the regular Fllex API Resource Center has for its samples.

(I realize the viewer relies on config files, so maybe tab(s) for the config file in addition to, or instead of the source code tab.)

Re: Widget Dock?

BjornSvensson — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 14:01:05 GMT

I realize the viewer relies on config files, so maybe tab(s) for the config file in addition to, or instead of the source code tab.

I agree. Giving people easy access to the configuration files (even without using httpfox, firebug, fiddler, charles) is definitely something we want to do.

I think two tabs like the API would probably work fine. The source tab would show the main configuration file and probably the widget configuration files as well.