No. You have to roll your own using some character that you are not going to use in the actual string. My current site uses the tilde (~) but the new version will probably use the forward slash. I also to a bit of replacing to get rid of anything that turns into %nn so it is still readable, e.g. http://examples.roughian.com/#Tutorials~Custom_Event Ian
http://examples.roughian.com 2009/6/26 Mark <mar...@gmail.com> > > Thanks Ian - that forward slash you have though - that's just created > in a call like: > > String chatRoomId = "123"; > History.newItem("chat/" + chatRoomId); > > right? There's not some other special GWT method for appending those > sorts of 'parameters', delimited by forward slash? > > Thanks > > On Jun 26, 3:38 pm, Ian Bambury <ianbamb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Personally, I use history for menu structure. In your case I would > imagine > > that #chat would take you to a list and #chat/123 would take you to an > > actual room. 'color=red' would either be kept in the user's settings, or > > possibly in a cookie for users who don't log on. But I'd probably think > 'if > > they can't be bothered to log on, then stuff it - one more reason to sign > > up.' :-) > > > > Ian > > > > http://examples.roughian.com > > > > 2009/6/26 Mark <mar...@gmail.com> > > > > > > > > > > > > > I guess I could kind of cheat and stick it all in the History call?: > > > > > History.newItem("chat?id=1234&color=red"); > > > > > this will kind of make sense to end users, and I can just parse the > > > history item myself for all the parameters - anything horribly wrong > > > with this, or any easier way? > > > > > Thanks > > > > > On Jun 26, 2:56 pm, markww <mar...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I'm not sure how we use history and parameters in GWT. For example, > > > > when my user wants to go to a login page, I do this: > > > > > > History.newItem("login"); > > > > > > which makes the url: > > > > > > www.mysite.com/myproject.html#login > > > > > > that's ok, if they copy and paste that url to another browser > > > > instance, my app knows to automatically show the login "page". > > > > > > But what if we want to add some parameters, for instance, if we > wanted > > > > to create a chat room page, something like: > > > > > > History.newItem("chat"); > > > > URL.addParameter("id", "1234"); > > > > URL.addParameter("color", "red"); > > > > > > to make something like: > > > > > > www.mysite.com/myproject.html#chat?id=1234&color=red > > > > > > I'm not sure how we can do that in GWT, but basically it would let > the > > > > user copy and paste that url into another instance, and my app would > > > > be able to know to load page chat, with parameters 1234 and red. > > > > > > Thanks > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to Google-Web-Toolkit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
