[Chameleon] Start up layers

[Paul Spencer]

Eric,

it should be possible to fake the application into turning on certain 
layers as the app starts by passing the correct URL.  This is because 
the legend widgets (HTML and XML) use form variables to track layer 
state between page loads.  I'm not exactly sure what the syntax would be 
so my suggestion is that you change your form method to GET, load the 
app, set the right layer status, update the page and capture the URL 
that is generated, then eliminate all the pieces that don't have to do 
with layer status and that should be what you need to add to turn layers 
on/off

If you get this to work, I would appreciate a note back to the list so 
we can add it to the tikiwiki for future users

Cheers,

Paul

Eric Bridger wrote:
> I'd like to be able to start up my application with various layers
> turned on without using the map file.  Ideally with a CGI command line
> parameter e.g. layers=land+boundaries+etc. In other cases a different
> set of layers would be sent. Is this possible?
> 
> What do you think would be the best approach to this.
> 
> After the initial startup I'm using the XMLThemeLegend widget to control
> layers.
> 
> Eric
> 
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