[OpenLayers-Users] Panel Visibility

[Gregor Mosheh]

Marc Desharnais wrote:
> I was wondering if it's possible to unhide the panels on the side of the 
> map. Like the selection panel where you pick the base layer and the 
> overlay that you want.

To show them, you add the control to your map's constructor.
Example:
    var controls = [new OpenLayers.Control.LayerSwitcher()];
    var map = new OpenLayers.Map('map',{'controls':controls});

The documentation also mentions a addControl() method, e.g.
    map.addControl( new OpenLayers.Control.LayerSwitcher() );

That method may or may not be in the version you downloaded; this stuff 
changes quickly and sometimes the doc mentions features that are only in 
the Subversion version, not in 2.4 release.

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