How to activate "coordinates" widget's internal function "onLocateClick" from "image" widget

MichaelLev — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 11:26:11 GMT

I use 2 custom widgets,
one is a copy of esri's original coordinates widget
and the other is a copy of esri's original image widget.
I can modify my copies as I wish.

The original image widget has a built -in option to sense when the user clicks it,
and I need that when the user clicks it,
it will activate the "onLocateClick" in my custom coordinates widget.

This is my first trial to make communication between 2 widgets in EXB

I see that both widgets - coordinates and image, do noyt have the Trigger/Message actions in the development system... and I do not understand why... and I do not know how to enable them to use this widgets communication way.

So, What I tried to do is:
I declared public object "_myApp" in client/dist/experience/index.html
and in my custom coordinates widget.tsx code,
I aded a line "_myApp.coordinates = Widget"
before its export line at the end of the file.

What I gained is that my custom image widget have access to _myApp.coordinates
but from this point I am stuck, since I have no access to the coordinates internal "onLocateClick" function.

I am new to React, so help will be greatly appreciated

topic How to activate "coordinates" widget's internal function "onLocateClick" from "image" widget in Experience Builder Custom Widgets

How to activate "coordinates" widget's internal function "onLocateClick" from "image" widget