Also, consider using states
<state name="live" apply="true">
... the enabled user interface components
</state>
<state name="submitting" apply="false">
....disabled widgets or a notice to the user to please wait...
</state>
<state name="done" apply="false">
...submit was successful, here are results...
</state>
The user registration in laszlo mail (www.laszlomail.com) was built
with this pattern.
On Apr 27, 2006, at 9:08 AM, Jason Stafford wrote:
> Assuming all your controls derive from basecomponent (which all the
> standard ones do), then you can just do something like:
>
> <button id='myuniquebuttonidentifier' text='OK'>
> <button id='mycancelbuttonid' text='Cancel'>
>
> <method name='disablebuttons'>
> myuniquebuttonidentifier.setAttribute('enabled', false);
> mycancelbuttonid.setAttribute('enabled', false);
> </method>
>
> basically the 'id' tag gives you a shortcut to access that item no
> matter where it is.
>
> See: http://www.openlaszlo.org/lps-latest/docs/guide/language-
> preliminaries.html#d0e1283
>
> -Jason
>
> Henry Minsky wrote:
>> There's a "searchSubviews" method on LzView, I've never tried, but
>> might work
>>
>> foo.searchSubviews('name', 'somename')
>>
>>
>> On 4/27/06, Alexey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi.
>>
>> Is it possible to find and element for it's id in LZX?
>>
>> Like getElementById() in DHTML. Because it is not easy to keep
>> constructions
>> like this.parent.parent... on track while structure of LZX
>> document changes.
>>
>> Thank you for your help.
>>
>> Вы писали 27 апреля 2006 г., 18:12:28:
>>
>> >> Can you help me with advice how it is better to indicate for the
>> >> user that
>> >> http request is in process in Laszlo? (I am submitting form
>> and want
>> >> user to know that something is happening)
>>
>> > We don't have a "best practice" for how to inform the user that a
>> > request is processing. If controls _must_ be disabled (to
>> prevent state
>> > changes while the request is on the wire), then disable them.
>> You can
>> > have all your controls' enabled attributes constrained to a flag
>> that
>> > gets set when the request is made and when it is completed, as
>> Henry
>> > suggested.
>>
>> > In many applications, we also change the cursor icon to show
>> that the
>> > application is busy.
>>
>> > Hope this helps,
>>
>> > Dan
>>
>> --
>> С уважением,
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>>
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