gxp question

[Ivan Willig]

Hey team,

I am trying to figure out how to add a toolBar object to a component and realized that i don't really understand what the actionTarget property does.

In GeoExplorer's configuration https://github.com/opengeo/geonode/blob/mapstory/src/geonode-client/app/static/script/app/GeoExplorer.js#L348

You can see that a lot of these gxp tools have an actionTarget. I need to put a generic ext.js tool bar in that same component.  What the best way of doing that? Also, is there a place where this stuff gets wired up, I feel like I don't really understand whats going on.

Lastly does this question make sense and am I doing it wrong?

Thanks.

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Ivan Willig
OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org

[Ivan Willig]

It seems like this is where the magic happens,

https://github.com/opengeo/gxp/blob/master/src/script/plugins/Tool.js#L105

[Ivan Willig]

I kind of figure it out.... Will share when I have a working solution.

[Andreas Hocevar]

Hey Ivan,

the actionTarget is just a component id of an Ext component (usually a
toolbar) that you have created somewhere, and the action (usually a
button) will be added to that toolbar.

If you have a plugin that creates a whole toolbar (which I would not
recommend, but I know there is the MapStory TimeSlider), you will want
to use outputTarget to configure where that toolbar goes. But it works
the same: a component id of an Ext component (in this case likely a
Container or Panel) that you want to add the output of the plugin (in
this case a toolbar) to.

Makes sense?
Andreas.

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[Ivan Willig]

Yes. 

I think so.

[Ivan Willig]

This is what I ended up doing.

https://github.com/opengeo/geonode/blob/buttonCleanUp/src/geonode-client/app/static/script/app/GeoExplorer.js#L31-L66