[Chameleon] Template/widget questions (Visible=false?)

[Mike Leahy]

Hello list,

I'm just getting started using one of the chameleon samples to try building my 
own template.  My first question is whether there is anyone who can imagine 
how I might be able to dynamically change the content of a template prior to 
its use by chameleon.  An simple example of what I mean would be the map 
title...in the samples, the text for the map title is set in a "title" 
widget.  If i use the same template to display a different mapfile, however, 
the title should appropriately change.  Similarly, I may want to change the 
content of other labels, and include/exclude or enable/disable various widgets 
depending on the current map or user context.  Should I be considering 
developing my own widgets from scratch or by modifying those distributed with 
Chameleon?  (a side note: I found that replacing '$szLabel = ""' 
with '$szLabel = $this->mszLabel;' to the beginning of the DrawPublish 
function of the CWCLabel class made the NAME property of a mapfile the default 
value for the Title widget).  

Another issue I'm wondering about is related to my attempt modify one of the 
chameleon samples to remove some of the widgets that I don't plan to use in my 
application.  Deleting them doesn't seem to cause problems, but I thought I 
might try leaving some in and just setting the visible property of the widget 
to "false", for example:

<cwc2 type="BoundingBoxPopup" image="icons/icon_zoombounds.png" 
visible="false" styleresource="NavButtons" popupstyleresource="TextButtons" 
imagetip="Zoom to Bounding Box or Point" imagewidth="24" imageheight="24" 
popupwidth="490" popupheight="450" toolbar="false" status="false" 
menubar="false">
  <image state="normal"/>
  <image state="selected"/>
  <image state="hover"/>
</cwc2>

When I did this, however, I got an alert message saying "image object for 
cwcimage_16 not found?".  I'm not sure what's causing this, since when I 
delete the same widget from the template I get no error at all.  Any ideas 
what might cause this?

Thanks in advance for any comments,
Mike

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