Attached is a demo of a window feature I have migrated from 0.5.x
to 0.6.1 (r4269). Some of my users really like it - perhaps some others
will too? If Sebastian thinks it is a worthy addition he could add it to
qx.ui.window.Window for 0.6.2 :)
The feature is called window "blocking". Blocking is a property which
can be set to true or false for any window instance. When it is set to
true, a window will be completely covered by a transparent
qx.ui.basic.Terminator when it is not the active window (the "transparent"
terminator can be given any appearance you like - E.g., a low opacity colour).
This means that unless a window is active the user cannot click any
widget in the window and cannot resize or reposition the window. The only
thing a user can do to a blocked window is to "unblock" it by clicking
anywhere in it. This automatically blocks all other windows which have
blocking set to true.
Why is this useful?
Some users are frustrated when a click that is intended to bring a
window into focus also triggers the widget that they happened to click.
This is especially true if the click unintentionally triggers an
expensive action. For example - our application has a Map window, and clicking
anywhere over the map can trigger a zoom, or an expensive spatial
search or selection.
See for yourself
Rename the attached sample1-src.foo to sample1-src.zip (sourceforge mail is
blocking mail with any attachment with the .zip extension).
Unzip the renamed sample1-src.zip and modify the Makefile so that
"QOOXDOO = ....." (on line 5) points to the qooxdoo sdk in your filesystem.
You will also need to add the following to
qx.theme.appearance.DefaultAppearanceTheme.js:
"window-blocker" : {
setup : function() {
this.bgcolor_active = new
qx.renderer.color.ColorObject("activecaption");
this.bgcolor_inactive = new
qx.renderer.color.ColorObject("inactivecaption");
},
initial : function(vTheme) {
return {
opacity : 0.2,
backgroundColor : this.bgcolor_inactive
}
}
},
Then make, and open sample1/build/index.html.
Click the "Create new window" button half a dozen times then move the
windows around so they overlap. Notice that you can't click the radio
buttons or use any controls of a blocked window. You can toggle
blocking off in some windows and see how the behaviour differs.
Enjoy,
Simon
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sample1-src.foo
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