The answer is very simple: As long as your tree is not used to control the layers of a map (order, visibility), you can have as many stores as you want. But usually the tree is used to control the map's layers, and this is only possible if the tree uses the map's layer store (mapPanel.layers).
Andreas. On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Robert Buckley <robertdbuck...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi, > > what is the real advantage of having one store and using filters to organise > the tree structure instead of having multiple stores which load each layer > container separately? > > A question that has been bothering me for some time. > > yours, > > Rob > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users@geoext.org > http://www.geoext.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users > -- Andreas Hocevar OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org/ Expert service straight from the developers. _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@geoext.org http://www.geoext.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users