How to hide a widget icon on the toolbar?

[ShaningYu]

If I create such a widget that will pop out when it is needed.  If so, I don't want to have it on the toolbar.  Can I just set icon="" in the config.xml?

[AnthonyGiles]

Shaning

Try placing the widget in the UI area of your config

Regards

Anthony

[RobertScheitlin__GISP · Accepted solution]

Shaning,

   Hooray... This question is in the right forum. No you can not just exclude the widget icon because a default icon will be used. You will have to make changes to the HeaderControllerWidget.mxml to exclude your specific widget from being added. If you look at the getWidgetItems function you can add code to check if the widget label == yourwidget and if so then use the continue statement to jump to the next item.

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[ShaningYu]

Robert:
Thanks so much for your multiple times of advices and help.  Solute to your great contributions.
Shaning

[AnthonyGiles]

Shaning

I have tried this solution and it works fine with no need for coding if you are using the compiled code

Shaning

Try placing the widget in the UI area of your config

Regards

Anthony

anthony

[RobertScheitlin__GISP]

Anthony,

   Does this not force the widget to automatically be loaded at startup though?.. If you want to open the widget from code based on some user click than adding it as a UI element is not the best route.

If I create such a widget that will pop out when it is needed.

[AnthonyGiles]

Robert,

Yes it does, mis-read original post just thought the widget wanted to be open at start up with no icon in the banner

Regards

Anthony

[ShaningYu]

I used Robert's approach to add the following code in getWidgetItems(widgetList:Array)
   ...

   if (widgetItem.label.toString() ! = "Find An Address") {
       widgetItem.open = widgetList.preload && (widgetList.preload == "open" || widgetList.preload == "minimized");
       menuItems.addItem(widgetItem);
   }
It works well