[Chameleon] my widgets don't widge

[Paul Spencer]

Bart,

thanks for helping Sara out with this problem.  You are very right, I do 
need to update the sample app on maptools ... I will add that to my high 
priority items and try to get to it this week :)

Cheers,

Paul

Bart van den Eijnden wrote:

> Hi Sara,
> 
> you should change the following part in your index.phtml file, so add 
> the 2 lines starting with $this:
> 
> class SampleApp extends Chameleon
> {
>    function SampleApp()
>    {
>      parent::Chameleon();
>      $this->moMapSession = new MapSession_RW;
>      $this->moMapSession->setTempDir( getSessionSavePath());
>    }
> 
> You can leave out the CWCInitializeMap() function. For clarity I have 
> attached a changed index.phtml file which should work for you.
> 
> Paul: shouldn't we update the sample app on www.maptools.org so no more 
> people will run into these problems? Perhaps we can put the Geodan 
> sample there instead of the old sample application?
> 
> Best regards,
> Bart
> 
> PS: it is a good habit to always CC the list, so other people with 
> similar problems in the future can search the archives.
> 
> On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 16:58:56 -0500, Sara Yurman 
> <syurman@spatialfocus.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Bart,
>>
>> Many thanks for your email.  Here are some responses to your questions
>>
>>> With red box you mean the box with the red outline ofcourse, and not 
>>> the complete map widget turning red like it does in Opera (this is a 
>>> known issue).
>>
>>
>> Yes, that's right.  No, I'm not an Opera user.
>>
>>> what browser are you using?
>>
>>
>> I was using Mozilla 1.5 when I wrote.  I've tried IE from our one and 
>> only Windows client and Galeon after that and got basically the same 
>> results.  Cutting off the Ruler works reliably in IE, and doesn't in 
>> Mozilla, but no other differences.
>>
>>  > My guess is that the problem will be in the constructor of your 
>> sample > application.
>>
>> I've listed the index.phtml file below.  I might be missing something 
>> here -- I'm still not seeing the problem.  It would be so wonderful if 
>> it were something I did in here -- it could be easily fixed.
>>
>> Thanks again for your help.  If you see anything in here, I would so 
>> appreciate hearing about it.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Sara
>>
>> *******************index.phtml below**********************************
>> <?
>> /*
>>   * this is a sample of a minimal application script required to
>>   * get a chameleon application running with a template and a
>>   * local map file.  Most applications should actually just
>>   * copy this file and modify the template and mapfile
>>   * parts and should not need to do a lot more here.
>>   */
>> include( "/var/www/cwc2/htdocs/chameleon.php" );
>>
>> $szTemplate = "nlr.html";
>> $szMapFile = "/var/www/cwc2/map/nlr.map";
>>
>> class SampleApp extends Chameleon
>> {
>>    function SampleApp()
>>    {
>>      parent::Chameleon();
>>    }
>>
>>    function CWCInitializeMap()
>>    {
>>      $this->moMapSession = new MapSession_RW;
>>      $this->moMapSession->setTempDir( getSessionSavePath());
>>      parent::CWCInitializeMap();
>>    }
>>
>>    function CWCLoadTemplate($szTemplateName)
>>    {
>>      $this->mszTemplate = implode("\n", file($szTemplateName));
>>    }
>> }
>>
>> $oApp =  new SampleApp();
>> $oApp->CWCInitialize( $szTemplate, $szMapFile  );
>> $oApp->CWCExecute();
>> ?>
> 
> 
> 
> 

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