[Chameleon] how to customize a widget?

[Roland Martin]

Hi Jeremy,

I'm also pretty new to it, but I've successfully done a couple!
(Although interestingly PrintProduction is one of the ones I've not
had any success with - maybe you should start with an easy one like
the LinkWidget?)

First, follow this advice here:
http://chameleon-tiki.maptools.org/tiki-index.php?page=HowtoCustomizeAnyWidget

They key bits are where it tells you to change the links half way
down. There's also a typo - the bit in your custom app (i.e. the
'index.phtml' page) should read:
$oApp->CWCExecute( array( dirname(__FILE__)."/widgets" );

This then ensures it looks in your directory first.

Then it's just a matter of copying widget folders across wholesale to
yours, and tweaking them till they work.

I found php.net pretty handy for PHP help.

Roland.



On 29/11/05, Sears, Jeremy <Jeremy.Sears at ccrs.nrcan.gc.ca> wrote:
>
> Hi List,
> Im am trying to customize the printproduction widget. My goal is to simplify
> the user interface. I would like avoid the whole dialog thing. When a user
> clicks the 'print' button they should get a map that has already been
> created with their current viewing extent as the extent of the output map. I
> have searched the documentation and this list's archives but cannot find any
> references to customizing the printproduction widget. I have spent some time
> the widgets and printproduction folders and have determined that the
> following files are relavent to my task:
>
>     preview.php
>     preview.phtml
>     PrintProduction.en.ca.doc.xml
>     PrintProduction.widget.php
>     production.inc.php
>     production.phtml
>     production_download.phtml
>     production_draw_legend.php
>     session.inc.php
>
> I am quite new to php and am hoping that someone can point me to some
> documentation related to this, offer advice on where to begin or let me know
> that it is impossible/possible.
>
> Best Regards
> Jeremy Sears
>
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: chameleon-bounces at lists.maptools.org
> [mailto:chameleon-bounces at lists.maptools.org]On Behalf Of
> Massimiliano Cannata
> Sent: November 29, 2005 12:48 PM
> To: chameleon at lists.maptools.org
> Subject: [Chameleon] folder structure description...
>
> Hi folks, i'm preparing some documentation of Chameleon in Italian and would
> like
> to have a short description of what the folder are for.
> Here is what I have understood (or not).
> Please help me in filling or correcting my knowledge...
>
>
> <!--[if !supportLists]-->/ms4w/apps/chameleon : installation folder (main
> folder)
> <!--[if !supportLists]-->/ms4w/apps/chameleon/config : contains
> configuration file
> (or just the application showing it with the URL localhost/chameleon/config/
> ?)
> <!--[if !supportLists]-->/ms4w/apps/chameleon/admin : (?);
> <!--[if !supportLists]-->/ms4w/apps/chameleon/docs/ : various documentation
> of Chameleon;
> <!--[if
> !supportLists]--><!--[endif]-->/ms4w/apps/chameleon/htdocs_admin/
> : (?);
> <!--[if !supportLists]-->/ms4w/apps/chameleon/samples/ : application sample;
> <!--[if !supportLists]-->/ms4w/apps/chameleon/cwc2/ : CWC2 service files;
> /ms4w/apps/chameleon/htdocs/ : teh core of the chameleon template: widgets,
> skins, icons, etc..;
> /ms4w/apps/chameleon/etc/ : here are the fonts;
> /ms4w/apps/chameleon/utils/ : (?) wich kind of utilities? now just an xml
> folder Thanks a lot for the help...
> Maxi
>
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