The examples provided still look like they would require recompiling the whole app unless you broke the parameters out into an xml file. When I talk about having to recompile, I am not referring to whether the actual data is dynamic, I mean that from day to day we have different layers that we want maptips on which we may or may not want the next day and I can't swap out the whole application while one hundred plus people are using it in the middle of an emergency just to hardcode in a layer name. In the widget model I see how you set up a configuration xml file and read all the settings from it, but this would not be a widget so I guess I would have to set up and read the xml file differently? Unless... could you create it as a widget and not have the widget windows or something since they would be unnecessary? Has anyone else done anything like this
I thank all of you that responded because new ideas always help point me in the right direction! 🙂
Thanks!!