I am using the flex viewer and want to have my widgets placed a little better if I can. Ideally, I want some space between different widgets in my application since some are for standard things and some are groups of tools that are more data-specific. The widget tray seems to just put all icons there regardless of how many widget containers you have. I have tried a couple things-
- Adding another widget container but this does not seem to do what I would like. I do not understand the concept of having multiple widget containers if they only allow for the widgets to open at specified location, yet still have the widget icons on the same row as all of the other widgets. to me that is not a container.
- adding a widget outside of a widget container- I can control where it appears. But it does not stay minimized upon application startup (prelaod="minimized") and if you close it, poof it is gone since its not attached to the tray as an icon. user has to reload app to see it again- not a good solution
Is there anything else I can try? Or am I out of luck? Am I just stuck with the limited functionality of the flex viewer? A lot of the tools would be so much more useful if they were tweaked just a little to have greater applicability. I have been asked to not rely on 3rd party apps, so I am stuck with the few I have been able to get approved and that is it....no flex developer here. I really with Esri would provide more useful tools (hello real select-by-attributes like in ArcMap) for us non developers.
thanks for any suggestions.
charlene
