[fusion-users] Problems with starting a new application.

Tue May 13 09:01:58 EDT 2008

Yes, that does help me, thank you very much.

However I did find a way to make Fusion read my ApplicationDefinition.xml 

(by leaving no extra URL parameters like ApplicationDefinition) however, I 

do not understand how and why. When I modify the MapGroup in the 

ApplicationDefinition, that if I change the id from sheboygan something else,

It doesn't work. But if use another map resource and keep the Sheboygan id for

the mapgroup it works perfectly ? Is this a bug within fusion and should it be

reported or is there a setting defining a map with ID='sheboygan' somewhere

I don't know about ?

Rgds

tomas

From: Kenneth Skovhede, GEOGRAF A/S [mailto:ks at geograf.dk] 
Sent: 13. maí 2008 13:04
To: Tómas Guðmundsson
Subject: Re: [fusion-users] Problems with starting a new application.

I'm not all up to date on Fusion, so I might be wrong.
Fusion can either use a standalone ApplicationDefinition.xml, or read the equvalent xml from the MapGuide server.
When you use Studio, it modifies the xml in the MapGuide server.
Normally, Fusion will load the xml from the MapGuide server, rather than from a file.
You cannot load xml into MapGuide via. Studio, but you can save a copy of the Xml to your disc, and manually insert it into the server.

Does that help you?

Regards, Kenneth Skovhede, GEOGRAF A/S

Tómas Guðmundsson skrev: 

Hello all. 

I wanted to ask this list if they can help me understand something more about fusion. If there is some more documentation than on the osgeo webpage I would be verey happy if someone could point me to that resource. I'm hoping somebody on this list can answer several aspects I have not yet wrapped my head around. I am using Mapguide Server and Studio Enterprise 2009 and the Fusion that came bundled with that CD. All my modifications and testing took place in the folder mapguide2009/fusion/templates/mapguide/newtemplate/ where newtemplate was indeed just a copy of another template which I modified so I wouldn't overwrite the original copy.

ApplicationDefinition.xml. To what ApplicationDefinition does fusion listen to or parse? I modified the one in the same directory, to hopefully include my mapdefinition but nothing happens. It still went with the default Sheboygan sample data or when it didn't do that it told me (via firebug) that mapGroup has no properties in Map.js. Maybe I'm referencing it wrong? Where can I find the MapDefinition for a weblayout or a map I have ? Also, when I removed a whole section of let's say, ContextMenu, nothing changed. Even with the right map (now given as a paramter in the URL) the same default ContextMenu popped up.

I know there are several ways to add your own stuff to the fusion application, but as a programmer I want to everything by hand.  When I add something with a point and click via Mapguide Studio it sometimes works but I would like to know the best way, and in what order I should add the xml definition of a widget, the javascript implementation of that widget, and then the xml snippet inside the applicationdefinition? (Which as point a) made, did not work for me when I changed the ApplicationDefinition).

How do I get fusion to execute my code? I tried with my own widgets or components and just the simple javascript command "alert('I say, Hello Fusion!');" does not seem to execute in my own widgets. Other widgets modified, like in the most simple one, About widget. Just before I would open the about window, I entered that line and nothing happened. A colleague of mine told me to move it up 4 lines, on line 67 in About.js, which seems totally random to me but hey, I got my About button to say Hello Fusion so it worked.

So these are my main points of not understanding how Fusion works, so I would appreciate it greatly if somebody could help me understand these points.

Regards,

Tomas, Programmer for

Snertill, Iceland.

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