On 30 Jul., 10:22, Maarten Decat <maarten.de...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to make a small app to log darts games. Basically, it
> should be possible to login with a user, register a new user, choose
> all the options for a new game and play that game. Playing the game
> means you just click the darts board on screen where you hit the board
> and the program calculates scores etc.
>
> The game page exists of a darts board and all the statistics. This is
> where I came up with my question because it is really hard to lay out
> these things in Java code. So I started searching for a possibility to
> load HTML (where the elements are layed out correctly) and work on the
> elements by getting them with RootPanel.get("...") instead of building
> the lay-out with panels in Java. Does this make it more clear what I'm
> trying to do?
>
> Also, how do I actually load HTML from the server into my app through
> Java?
Use GWT-RPC or RequestBuilder (both are very well described in the
docs) to get your html. Use iframe or just an HTMLPanel to display it.
> Maarten
>
> On 30 jul, 01:14, Ian Bambury <ianbamb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Yes, like I said. Do the layout in the HTML and the functionality in the
> > java code.
> > Why don't you give a simple example of what you are wanting to do. There are
> > many ways to do this and many levels of control you can give to the people
> > who do the layout. It's not really possible to give a one-size-fits-all
> > solution.
>
> > Ian
>
> >http://examples.roughian.com
>
> > 2009/7/29 Maarten Decat <maarten.de...@gmail.com>
>
> > > Okay, I think I'm starting to see the different options.
>
> > > I can ask the same question more specific now. Formerly, I was used to
> > > working like this: I wrote PHP and added all the elements I needed
> > > (forms for example) in HTML. Someone else could take control of laying
> > > out these elements in any way he liked. He could alter the HTML of the
> > > page apart from my PHP and as long as the elements kept their names,
> > > everything kept working. This way, I could fix my attention on the
> > > program and others could fix their attention at the lay-out.
>
> > > In GWT it's possible to create a lay-out by positioning different
> > > widgets in Java code. It's also possible to give these widgets style
> > > names which let CSS take control of their layout. But is it also
> > > possible of laying out the elements without entering the Java code? I
> > > can see how to seperate lay-out with program code but the lay-out
> > > would still be specified in Java, no?
>
> > > Maarten
>
> > > On 29 jul, 20:21, Ian Bambury <ianbamb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > You have html in your index file. You have code in your java files. How
> > > you
> > > > split everything up is your decision.
>
> > > > In your html host page, you could have 2 divs, defining the layout for
> > > page1
> > > > and page 2. In your GWT code, yo make one or other visible as you need
> > > them.
>
> > > > It might get a little unmanageable for 100 pages, so you could have html
> > > > files on the server and go and pick them up as required.
>
> > > > You can do both at the same time: have a basic menuing framework and
> > > > pick
> > > up
> > > > html from server-side pages and slot them into part of your app's
> > > > display
> > > > area. That's what my examples site does, mostly to keep all the text out
> > > of
> > > > the initial download. It also means you can easily arrange to get
> > > spidered
> > > > by search engines.
>
> > > > Ian
>
> > > >http://examples.roughian.com
>
> > > > 2009/7/29 maarten.de...@gmail.com <maarten.de...@gmail.com>
>
> > > > > Hi,
>
> > > > > I've been trying out GWT for a couple of weeks now and stumbled upon a
> > > > > beginner's question relating multiple pages.
>
> > > > > For example, let's suppose an application with users where you have an
> > > > > application page, a login page and a register page. Using GWT for the
> > > > > application page speaks for itself, but what about the other pages?
>
> > > > > I've read the other topics about this problem in the group. It seems
> > > > > the proper GWT solution is to clear window and load another GUI there.
> > > > > This would actually wrap all the pages within the application. I can
> > > > > see how this solution would work, but then you lack a lot of usefull
> > > > > HTML pages that lay out the login and register forms. This way, making
> > > > > the lay-out of the page cannot be seperated from coding the
> > > > > application, at least not in HTML vs GWT/Java.
>
> > > > > Is there another way of working for this? One that does permit to
> > > > > seperate page lay-out and coding?
>
> > > > > Greets,
>
> > > > > Maarten Decat
>
>
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