mg-desktop: Support for pre-defined Search Commands

[bassonsh]

Hi,

I am using the mg-desktop viewer and would like to have the custom search functionality on the properties of my existing layers. Similar to the web viewer. Is there an existing control or component that i can just drop in the viewer window and then point to the layers i want to be searchable? As a last resort is there maybe a .net example with code i could use or is there even such functionality for the mg-desktop viewer?

Thanks. Shaun

[jng]

There's a Generic Query Component that you can use, though it may be too complex for what you're after. If you want something akin to Search Commands in the AJAX viewer, we currently don't have anything approaching that in the mg-desktop viewer, though it would be quite easy to implement.

[bassonsh]

Thanks,

Yes the search commands is what i'm looking for. I see that you do have a search window (exactly what i'm looking for) in the .net MapviewerTest.exe (See attached). That part is not included in the sample source code that you made available last. Can you maybe make that source code available please? Or something similar if you have something available? Or does this require quite a bit of coding to get that result?

Thanks in advance. Shaun

[jng]

All source code to mg-desktop and its viewer and samples is readily available here: ​http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/browser/branches/2.4/MgDev/Desktop

All you need is a subversion client (see ​here)

[bassonsh]

Great! Thanks, will check it out.

Regards, Shaun

[jng]

One more thing. That link points to only the "mg-desktop" portion of the repository, but if you want to build all of mg-desktop then you need to svn checkout the entire parent "MgDev" tree.

[bassonsh]

Thanks. I'm really just interested in using the viewer with some search functionality.

[bassonsh]

Ok maybe i'm approaching this the wrong way. Why can i not just download the source code from ​http://svn.osgeo.org/mapguide/trunk/MgDev/Desktop/, open the .sln file, point the references to the right folder that contains those dll files, build and run?? There are always so many things to fix up and i still cant get it to compile? Is there not a file that one can run after downloading the solution that will check and basically 'correct' or setup the entire environment or atleast an instruction document that tells you exactly what one will have to fix up where (in rookie programmers language :-)) in order for the solution to run? Am i doing something wrong?

[jng]

Sure, if you're only interested in building the .net bits you can indeed just download the "Desktop" directory.

Unzip the latest mg-desktop binaries, and put them under bin\Release and copy these assemblies to bin\Assemblies:

• OSGeo.MapGuide.Foundation.dll
• OSGeo.MapGuide.Geometry.dll
• OSGeo.MapGuide.PlatformBase.dll
• OSGeo.MapGuide.Desktop.dll

This will satisfy all the required references to build the .net projects.

But the way things are set up, it assumes the whole dependent stack of C++ libraries have been built up first (any dll not starting with OSGeo.MapGuide is a C++ one), before you can even get to compile the mg-desktop .net projects

1. FDO
2. All libraries under MgDev\Oem
3. All libraries under MgDev\Commmon
4. MgDesktop.dll
5. SWIG glue dlls (one that end with *UnmanagedApi.dll)
6. SWIG-generated .net wrapper assemblies

If you follow my above instructions. You can shortcut the above steps.

[bassonsh]

Thanks, That helped. I'm sorted now.

[jng]

Re-opening as the idea of pre-defined "Search Commands" still has plenty of merit worth pursuing

[jng]

Implemented r7067