Re: Problem with NW_WIDGET_FACTORY_window and content loading

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On Thursday 24 July 2003 1:22 pm, Michael Flanagan wrote:
> I've spun my tires on this and can't figure out what's going on.
>
> I'm dynamically creating a new window widget at runtime given a
> user's onclick event.
>
> The following works just as I'd expect (although I patched
> NW_WIDGET_window_create_load_append to not call
> __env__.addToPageQueue() if url was null or blank):

can you commit that patch? Sounds useful.

> _nwSearchWindow = NW_WIDGET_window_create_load_append(
>	500, 
>	400,
>	100,
>	100,
>	"Customer Search",
>	"",
>	"");
>
> __env__.addToPageQueue(
>	"Broker?env="+
>		tscEnvironment+
>		"&portal=none&template=glb/customer/customerSearch.xml",
>	_nwSearchWindow.contentObj.contentNode,
>	false,
>	_customerSearch = new CustomerSearch(),
>	"constructor");

(whitespace added for readability)

> While the following doesn't work:
>
> _nwSearchWindow = NW_WIDGET_FACTORY_window(
> 	"Customer Search",
> 	100,
>	100,
>	500,
>	400);
// assume document.body.append(_nwSearchWindow.domNode);
> __env__.addToPageQueue(
>	"Broker?env="+
>		tscEnvironment+
>		"&portal=none&template=glb/customer/customerSearch.xml",
>	_nwSearchWindow.contentObj.contentNode,
>	false,
>	_customerSearch = new CustomerSearch(),
>	"constructor");
>
> I can't for the life of me figure out why. All create_load_append
> does is call NW_WIDGET_FACTORY_window and return the window ref.

Yeah, that's really odd. I'll look into it tonight. There's really no 
reason this shouldn't work.

> I then modified NW_WIDGET_window_create_load_append so that I could
> pass it two extra parameters (optionally) and have it set a
> callback method on the addToPageQueue() call. The calling code then
> looks like:

Cna you also commit that patch?

> _nwSearchWindow = NW_WIDGET_window_create_load_append(400, 300,
> 100, 100, "Customer Search", "",
>
> "Broker?env="+tscEnvironment+"&portal=none&template=glb/customer/cu
>stomerSearch.xml", _customerSearch = new CustomerSearch(),
> "constructor");
>
> This works like a charm. I'm still miffed about my direct call to
> NW_WIDGET_FACTORY_window, but would like to know what people think
> about adding the two extra (optional) parameters to
> NW_WIDGET_window_create_load_append?

They're good. Let's nail them in.

Thanks.

- -- 
Alex Russell
[email protected]
[email protected]
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