Adding/Opening User-selected widgets

[AndrewBlakey]

Hi all:

I have a simple use case but I'm not sure how to circumvent the Flex Viewer design to do so.

I have two basic widgets that sit beside the map frame. Neither have the widget frame, icon, etc.   I want the application to start up showing neither and ask the user which one to display. Upon choice, the application will load and display that one, which being a static size and position, will fill the gap beside the map frame.

How can I load in a widget and display it AFTER the application has initialized?

My workaround is to load both, and hide it all with a panel that shows up. Upon selection, the panel disappears and I use events to hide the one I don't want.

[RobertScheitlin__GISP]

Andrew,

  Just use:

AppEvent.dispatch(AppEvent.WIDGET_RUN, id);

[AndrewBlakey]

Hi Robert:

This makes sense but I'm stuck at how to tell FlexViewer what the widget is (and therefore have it assigned an ID) without it loading and running.  I currently have the widget listed in the ViewerUI section of config.xml.  Everything I list in this section is loaded displayed on startup.

[RobertScheitlin__GISP · Accepted solution]

Andrew,

   Your situation is pretty unique, so you will need to add the widgets back to the sandard widgets container and just prevent the HeaderControllerWidget for making a button for the widgets by inspecting the widgets array for the widgets label and if it equals one of your widgets then you do not add the button.

[AndrewBlakey]

Hi Robert:

The Flex Viewer is a fairly complex beast with what I think is too little commenting.  Your guidance has once again helped me identify where to focus my modification efforts.  I've added a new config parameter for widgets asking whether to show or hide them from the HeaderControllerWidget and it works great.

Thanks again for your help.