[Chameleon] Widgets or JSAPI

[Seiple, Timothy E]

You mention "grabbing these values with [my] onclick when over the map".
How do I build this onclick event?

Let's say I have an html button in my template that calls a JavaScript
function.  This function would have to somehow focus on the mouse,
access the map object, and accept onclick event arguments - all from the
template file.

I see the JSAPI offers the mouseclick property of the CWCApplication.
Is there an equivalent widget property (e.g. <cwc2 type=MapDHTML
onclick=getxy() .../>)?


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[mailto:chameleon-bounces at lists.maptools.org] On Behalf Of Jason
Fournier
Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 10:21 AM
To: chameleon at lists.maptools.org
Subject: Re: [Chameleon] Widgets or JSAPI

Timothy,

I think the cursorpos widget populates the CursorPos_X, CursorPos_Y form
vars with the current geographic position:

document.formname.CursorPos_X.value
document.formname.CursorPos_Y.value

(note that these are the cursospos labels)

You could grab these values with your onclick when over the map and pass
them back to your opener.

I would take a look at the MapNotes widget.  It has much of the
functionality that you going after ... it should shed some light.  This
functionality includes allowing a widget to have control over map
onclicks, etc.

You shouldn't have to use JSAPI for this functionality - it can be
achieved with Chameleon in the default mode.

Jay




Seiple, Timothy E wrote:
> I have a web application that requires the user to manually enter 
> coordinate information into a form.  I would like to provide a button,

> whose on_click event will launch an instance of chameleon with a map 
> that allows the user to click on the map to get the coordinates.  The 
> coordinates must then be passed as variables back to the calling form.
> A remote Oracle DB will provide the spatial data and store the 
> captured coordinate information.
> 
> Can I do this with Widgets or must I use the JSAPI?  I am confused 
> about where I can place scripts.  For example, my template uses the 
> Cursorpos Widget to dynamically display {x,y} but how do I capture 
> these in variables that can be passed to other pages?  I can see the 
> Chameleon generated JavaScripts and variables in the page source but 
> don't know how to interact with them.
> 
> I need some help understanding the big picture.
> 
> Thanks,
> Tim
> 
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