Bug 124

Summary: [Chameleon] Error Widget Dependencies
Product: Chameleon Reporter: Chris Thorne <cthorne@dmsolutions.ca>
Component: WidgetAssignee: chameleon-dev <chameleon-dev@lists.maptools.org>
Status: CLOSED INVALID    
Severity: normal    
Priority: P2    
Version: 1.1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows 2000   
Whiteboard:

Description From 2003-11-14 15:35:32 
When a widget is dependent on working with respect to another widget(s) an error
popup. This popup should only occur when an action is being requested by the user. 

eg. of this are all the Navigation Widgets they all depend on the map widget.
------- Comment #1 From 2004-04-06 13:18:41 ------- 
this bug is too general, there is nothing to actually fix.  File individual bugs
for each widget that really needs to be fixed.  I.e. if you can tell me that you
really think it is a valid use of the zoomin widget to be in the page without
some sort of map image then I will look at that specific case.

I am hesitant to agree that all widgets should load individually without
dependencies ... even though most will.
------- Comment #2 From 2004-04-14 10:48:38 ------- 
Maybe it is more of an issue of what errors are communicated at time of load.
Instead of displaying a php error, it would be more helpful that the error to
communicate a clearer message. That suggests that the widget will not work
because of a missing widget dependency.  When I files this bug, to me the error
looked more serious than it was.

The of course is still a general bug, related to error/warning reporting. I do
not want to file a bug for every widget until there is a clearer plan as to how
we are going to deal with this issue, for all widgets.
------- Comment #3 From 2004-06-23 19:58:07 ------- 
closing invalid bug.... this issue has been generally addressed on a widget by
widget bases, throught the chameleon test plan.