topic Re: Reopening Enhanced Splash Widget in ArcGIS Viewer for Flex Questions

Reopening Enhanced Splash Widget

BenOverholt — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 16:37:45 GMT

I am using the enhanced splash widget to display some information about the project on one tab and a simple how-to for some of the widgets I will be using in another. I want to be able to reopen the splash page in case someone wants to revisit the how-to section. When I press "enter" on the splash widget it closes it but is still active in the widget container and clicking on the icon there does not bring it back up. Any ideas?

Ben Overholt

Re: Reopening Enhanced Splash Widget

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 18:09:57 GMT

Ben,

If you are placing the Enhanced Splash Widget in the right place in your config file as instructed in the ReadMe.txt you would not have a icon for it. Using it the way you are attempting might be possible but not what it is really designed for. Splash widgets are one time appearance per session type of widgets.

Re: Reopening Enhanced Splash Widget

BenOverholt — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 11:58:17 GMT

I realize that it is not being used as intended. Are there any other ways to bring up some sort of widget window similar to a splash page with this kind of editable information?

Re: Reopening Enhanced Splash Widget

AlexSanders — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 17:22:51 GMT

The about link brings up a splash page that you could configure a hyperlink to a page that would include help topics and you could change the word from about to help. Don't know if that would work, or you could just refresh the web browser 😉

Alex Sanders

Re: Reopening Enhanced Splash Widget

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 17:47:11 GMT

Ben,

Currently the widget is not coded to allow for reopening but I am looking into the ability to do that. I'll keep you updated.

Re: Reopening Enhanced Splash Widget

BenOverholt — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 03:44:52 GMT

Alex- I noticed the about link just before I read your post and that does seem to be a simple work around for now. Thanks for your input.

Robert- I do think your enhanced splash widget would be the best solution, as it would allow for multiple tabs. I look forward to your enhancements. Thanks for the help.

Re: Reopening Enhanced Splash Widget

AdamRepsher — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 13:34:19 GMT

Ben,

Currently the widget is not coded to allow for reopening but I am looking into the ability to do that. I'll keep you updated.

Thank you Ben for thinking of this one, and Robert for considering it. Being able to maintain ONE re-usable splash page is better than having to maintain two. I have configured the About link to show the exact same thing as the original Splash.

It would be handy to just make the About link open the Enhanced Splash widget.

Re: Reopening Enhanced Splash Widget

JustinRiggs — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 14:14:12 GMT

Sorry, really basic question. How do I set up the "About" link in my viewer?

Re: Reopening Enhanced Splash Widget

AdamRepsher — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 14:26:51 GMT

Sorry, really basic question. How do I set up the "About" link in my viewer?

Hi Justin!

It's all in the HeaderControllerWidget.xml.

--Adam

Re: Reopening Enhanced Splash Widget

DarrenGemoets — Tue, 10 May 2011 20:51:33 GMT

Add me to the list of folks who'd like a re-openable splash page. I'm not using the Enhanced Splash widget at the moment, but I have been unable to get a modified Splash widget to come back up with non-empty content. I've added a few UI controls to the modified Splash widget (to direct the user to the desired area of the app).

That said, I'm certain my problem has to do with being a Flex/ActionScript noob. My static properties are not acting static (like I would have expected from the Java world) and content seems to be getting blanked out in the attempt to re-open the Splash page (or in closing the initial one).

Re: Reopening Enhanced Splash Widget

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Tue, 10 May 2011 22:12:32 GMT

Darren,

You are not likely doing anything wrong in your changes... The widget was never designed to be reopened.

Re: Reopening Enhanced Splash Widget

DarrenGemoets — Thu, 12 May 2011 17:31:16 GMT

Darren,
You are not likely doing anything wrong in your changes... The widget was never designed to be reopened.

Well, I'm doing something wrong in my attempt to re-design it to re-open. 🙂 I've attempted to turn it into a widget (using viewer:BaseWidget), un-parameterize content and btnLabel, and make the content and btnLabel properties static (assigned once in init() from config), but they are not acting static. When the widget comes back up, the content is blank. I also tried to make it essentially a Singleton, but that hasn't worked either.

Anyone have any quick thoughts / high level approach how to widgetize the Splash page and make it re-openable (while still getting content from configuration)?

Thanks,
Darren

Re: Reopening Enhanced Splash Widget

DarrenGemoets — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 15:11:59 GMT

For what it's worth, I was able to make the FlexViewer Splash page re-openable. I turned it into a widget (using viewer:BaseWidget), added the additional UI I wanted, and moved the configuration to HeaderController (the class that re-launches the Splash page). I changed the Splash page to use HeaderController's configuration file (HeaderController.xml) so that it could get the content as splash.content and splash.btnlabel. HeaderController gets the same configuration and passes the content and btnLabel to the splash page widget's show() routine. show() does pretty much the same thing as HTMLPopup.show(), except that it returns a SplashPageWidget instead of an HTMLPopup.

Not the best solution, no doubt, but it works for me.

Re: Reopening Enhanced Splash Widget

ClementG — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 19:39:39 GMT

Hello every one ! First post here. Hopefully not the last, cause i'd like to be involved in the GIS comunity for years to come !

It's my third day i've been working wiht Flex and ArcGIS Viewer.

I know this SplashWidget is not intended for being a standard widget but I'd like to know if it could be possible to replace the standard "About" in the HeaderControllerWidget by this SpashWidget.

I know the standard "About" is a HTMLPopUp and this one is a standard PopUp.

I would like to create my own "Help" tab in this SplashPage and I still need a lot of knowledge to design my own "page" this is why i wonder if it could be possible to replace the ShowAbout by the SplashWidget ?

I don't really want you to give me the "ready to eat" solution but i would like some hints on how to do that, and where to begin.

I've tried a lot and read a lot ( even if there is not much to read about this ) but i can't find a suitable solution to my problem.

I managed to build a new widget and open the default SplashWidget when the click is done. But i don't need the StandardHTMLPage but the EnhancedSlapsh to show.

Thank you for reading, moreover for answering.