[Chameleon] Documentation available‏ Chameleon JSAPI mode

[Julien-Samuel Lacroix]

Hi,

I must agree with Tim on this one. I still suggest to go ahead with the 
Chameleon and the JSAPI in some cases, but mostly with already existing 
application and when no custom widgets are considered.

If you want to extend Chameleon and you don't have an application yet, 
it may be better to go with Fusion (MapServer or MapGuide) or a plain 
OpenLayers application.

If you already have a Chameleon application and want to add the JSAPI 
mode, then look at the other widgets for examples. The first thing to 
read is the following tutorial on how to build widgets:

http://chameleon-tiki.maptools.org/tiki-index.php?page=Developing+a+new+Chameleon+Widget

Once you have your functionality working, you'll add the JSAPI support. 
Basicly it's adding some code in UpdateMap.php and adding a javacscript 
function to call UpdateMap.php. Look at the MapTips, QuickZoom and 
WMSBrowser widgets for good examples.

Julien

Nolte, Tim wrote:
> Honestly, I don't know if you want to bother with trying to use JSAPI mode in Chameleon. That was my original goal about a year ago, and while I did get some help with getting some things to work there are really too many widgets that don't work right in JSAPI mode. I basically abandoned trying to go with JSAPI mode. I'm now moving our MapServer to the Fusion(MapGuide) framework. So far I've been able to get just about everything I needed that was standard in about a day. I still need to build a couple of my own custom widgets (yes they are called that there too). The amount of documentation still seems a little sparse, but not really that much more than Chameleon is. The other thing about Fusion is that it is a JavaScript/AJAX application right out of the box, and it has very active development. There hasn't been a new release of Chameleon for the last 10 months, so I don't see there being much of an active community of developers. You'll find Fusion at:
> 
> 	http://trac.osgeo.org/fusion
> 
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>>-----Original Message-----
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>>[mailto:chameleon-bounces at lists.maptools.org] On Behalf Of 
>>Orlando Solarte
>>Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 5:57 PM
>>To: chameleon at lists.maptools.org
>>Subject: [Chameleon] Documentation available‏ Chameleon JSAPI mode
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>>Hello.
>> 
>>I am trying develod chamaleon application working on JSAPI 
>>mode. I neet to developed news widgets, but I don't know how.
>>The documentation available on 
>>http://chameleon.maptools.org/index.phtml?page=CWC2JavascriptA
>>PI.html is basic.
>> 
>>I need to know how work chameleon in JSAPI mode, i.e CWC2 
>>architecture on JSAPI mode. 
>>I used ajaxworkshop.zip documentation.
>> 
>>So, my question is...
>> 
>>Where Is There documetation detailed about chamaleon 
>>application working on JSAPI mode with examples?
>> 
>>I am tryng understand  know how to work ZoomAllLayers widget 
>>on JSAPI  mode, but isn't easy within documentation.
>> 
>>Thanks!
>> 
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