Re: this has to be easier.....
the question is, how exactly you want to track the changing of focus? -Matej Johan Compagner wrote: if i have an ajax behavior on a text field event: onfocus and i set the background and then add that component to the ajax event for redraw then i loose focus. Ofcourse there are ways to go around that.. for example i could just write the style tag out instead of the complete component. But what when it gets a bit harder? (like a parent is altered and rerendered) i could attach a behavior (onfocus) to all components and let them set the last know focus component. And then append to every ajax call a script: if (lastfocuscomponent) lastfocuscomponent.focus(); the problem with this is that this focus gained should be ignored if there was an ajax focus gained event that the server wants to receive , else you could have an endless loop. Can't wicket do this for the developer? so track the latest focus component when an ajax call is dispatched. And when it returns set the focus back (and then ignore that focus gained event...) johan
Re: this has to be easier.....
yes, tracking is easy with our new event thing :) get on it matej! -igor On 2/19/07, Johan Compagner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: attach an onfocus event on all focusable components then have a javascript variable in the page that gets that assigned input type=text onfocus=lastfocuscomponent=this;MaybeAnAjaxCall then i prepend a script that uses that lastfocuscomponent variable to get the focus back in. Ofcourse the onFocus event should be cleared or ignored for one time if there is an MaybeAnAjaxCall ... so the tracking is pretty easy, it is the handling after that. johan On 2/19/07, Matej Knopp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the question is, how exactly you want to track the changing of focus? -Matej Johan Compagner wrote: if i have an ajax behavior on a text field event: onfocus and i set the background and then add that component to the ajax event for redraw then i loose focus. Ofcourse there are ways to go around that.. for example i could just write the style tag out instead of the complete component. But what when it gets a bit harder? (like a parent is altered and rerendered) i could attach a behavior (onfocus) to all components and let them set the last know focus component. And then append to every ajax call a script: if (lastfocuscomponent) lastfocuscomponent.focus(); the problem with this is that this focus gained should be ignored if there was an ajax focus gained event that the server wants to receive , else you could have an endless loop. Can't wicket do this for the developer? so track the latest focus component when an ajax call is dispatched. And when it returns set the focus back (and then ignore that focus gained event...) johan
Re: this has to be easier.....
well we have the new Wicket.Event thing you can use to install events. so really what you do is create a javascript variable, then install a 'domready' event that traverses the dom tree looks for formcomponents and adds an onfocus event. then we just need to make the ajax stuff aware of this. see wicket-event.js and new method in iheaderresponse i have also been bitten by this, and recently there was a thread on the list about this as well. -igor On 2/19/07, Johan Compagner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: really? matej, do tell! i can work on it also because i really need it :) johan On 2/19/07, Igor Vaynberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yes, tracking is easy with our new event thing :) get on it matej! -igor On 2/19/07, Johan Compagner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: attach an onfocus event on all focusable components then have a javascript variable in the page that gets that assigned input type=text onfocus=lastfocuscomponent=this;MaybeAnAjaxCall then i prepend a script that uses that lastfocuscomponent variable to get the focus back in. Ofcourse the onFocus event should be cleared or ignored for one time if there is an MaybeAnAjaxCall ... so the tracking is pretty easy, it is the handling after that. johan On 2/19/07, Matej Knopp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the question is, how exactly you want to track the changing of focus? -Matej Johan Compagner wrote: if i have an ajax behavior on a text field event: onfocus and i set the background and then add that component to the ajax event for redraw then i loose focus. Ofcourse there are ways to go around that.. for example i could just write the style tag out instead of the complete component. But what when it gets a bit harder? (like a parent is altered and rerendered) i could attach a behavior (onfocus) to all components and let them set the last know focus component. And then append to every ajax call a script: if (lastfocuscomponent) lastfocuscomponent.focus(); the problem with this is that this focus gained should be ignored if there was an ajax focus gained event that the server wants to receive , else you could have an endless loop. Can't wicket do this for the developer? so track the latest focus component when an ajax call is dispatched. And when it returns set the focus back (and then ignore that focus gained event...) johan
Re: this has to be easier.....
What i want is this:
component.add(new ajaxbehaviour(onfocus))
then in the onEvent i do
ajaxtarget.add(component)
but then the focus is gone.
So what should happen is that the focus is tracked on the page
and when a ajax request comes back then it does focus() again.
What we also can do is that i do it on the server side:
onEvent(AjaxTarget)
{
ajaxtarget.add(component);
ajaxtarget.setFocus(component,ignoreEvents)
}
then i can controll it on the serverside completely
johan
On 2/19/07, Johan Compagner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
really?
matej, do tell!
i can work on it also because i really need it :)
johan
On 2/19/07, Igor Vaynberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
yes, tracking is easy with our new event thing :)
get on it matej!
-igor
On 2/19/07, Johan Compagner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
attach an onfocus event on all focusable components
then have a javascript variable in the page that gets that assigned
input type=text onfocus=lastfocuscomponent=this;MaybeAnAjaxCall
then i prepend a script that uses that lastfocuscomponent variable to
get
the focus back in.
Ofcourse the onFocus event should be cleared or ignored for one time
if
there is an MaybeAnAjaxCall ...
so the tracking is pretty easy, it is the handling after that.
johan
On 2/19/07, Matej Knopp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
the question is, how exactly you want to track the changing of
focus?
-Matej
Johan Compagner wrote:
if i have an ajax behavior on a text field event: onfocus
and i set the background and then add that component to the ajax
event
for
redraw
then i loose focus. Ofcourse there are ways to go around that..
for example i could just write the style tag out instead of the
complete
component.
But what when it gets a bit harder? (like a parent is altered and
rerendered)
i could attach a behavior (onfocus) to all components and let them
set
the last know focus component. And then append to every ajax call
a
script:
if (lastfocuscomponent) lastfocuscomponent.focus();
the problem with this is that this focus gained should be ignored
if
there
was an ajax focus
gained event that the server wants to receive , else you could
have an
endless loop.
Can't wicket do this for the developer?
so track the latest focus component when an ajax call is
dispatched.
And
when it returns
set the focus back (and then ignore that focus gained event...)
johan
Re: this has to be easier.....
if you want something specific then you can already do ajaxtarget.focus()
ajaxtarget.appendjavascript(document.getelementbyid
('+c.getmarkupid()+').focus();)
if you want this more general so it works transparently its trickier. then
like you said you need to keep track of focus in a var and append it to ajax
urls. which we can do. this new event stuff allows us to attach onfocus
event to everything so we can track it easily.
-igor
On 2/19/07, Johan Compagner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What i want is this:
component.add(new ajaxbehaviour(onfocus))
then in the onEvent i do
ajaxtarget.add(component)
but then the focus is gone.
So what should happen is that the focus is tracked on the page
and when a ajax request comes back then it does focus() again.
What we also can do is that i do it on the server side:
onEvent(AjaxTarget)
{
ajaxtarget.add(component);
ajaxtarget.setFocus(component,ignoreEvents)
}
then i can controll it on the serverside completely
johan
On 2/19/07, Johan Compagner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
really?
matej, do tell!
i can work on it also because i really need it :)
johan
On 2/19/07, Igor Vaynberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
yes, tracking is easy with our new event thing :)
get on it matej!
-igor
On 2/19/07, Johan Compagner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
attach an onfocus event on all focusable components
then have a javascript variable in the page that gets that assigned
input type=text
onfocus=lastfocuscomponent=this;MaybeAnAjaxCall
then i prepend a script that uses that lastfocuscomponent variable
to
get
the focus back in.
Ofcourse the onFocus event should be cleared or ignored for one time
if
there is an MaybeAnAjaxCall ...
so the tracking is pretty easy, it is the handling after that.
johan
On 2/19/07, Matej Knopp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
the question is, how exactly you want to track the changing of
focus?
-Matej
Johan Compagner wrote:
if i have an ajax behavior on a text field event: onfocus
and i set the background and then add that component to the ajax
event
for
redraw
then i loose focus. Ofcourse there are ways to go around that..
for example i could just write the style tag out instead of the
complete
component.
But what when it gets a bit harder? (like a parent is altered
and
rerendered)
i could attach a behavior (onfocus) to all components and let
them
set
the last know focus component. And then append to every ajax
call
a
script:
if (lastfocuscomponent) lastfocuscomponent.focus();
the problem with this is that this focus gained should be
ignored
if
there
was an ajax focus
gained event that the server wants to receive , else you could
have an
endless loop.
Can't wicket do this for the developer?
so track the latest focus component when an ajax call is
dispatched.
And
when it returns
set the focus back (and then ignore that focus gained event...)
johan
Re: this has to be easier.....
that would be the best thing
because doing it serverside is a bad thing
because the user could already be jumping to another field and then
it always is restored to the one you think it is on the serverside
The best thing is attaching it on the onfocus event on the client side
and record it.
and after a ajax request always do onfocus on this except when we
do call it on the server side explicitly !
johan
On 2/19/07, Igor Vaynberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
if you want something specific then you can already do ajaxtarget.focus()
ajaxtarget.appendjavascript(document.getelementbyid
('+c.getmarkupid()+').focus();)
if you want this more general so it works transparently its trickier. then
like you said you need to keep track of focus in a var and append it to
ajax
urls. which we can do. this new event stuff allows us to attach onfocus
event to everything so we can track it easily.
-igor
On 2/19/07, Johan Compagner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What i want is this:
component.add(new ajaxbehaviour(onfocus))
then in the onEvent i do
ajaxtarget.add(component)
but then the focus is gone.
So what should happen is that the focus is tracked on the page
and when a ajax request comes back then it does focus() again.
What we also can do is that i do it on the server side:
onEvent(AjaxTarget)
{
ajaxtarget.add(component);
ajaxtarget.setFocus(component,ignoreEvents)
}
then i can controll it on the serverside completely
johan
On 2/19/07, Johan Compagner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
really?
matej, do tell!
i can work on it also because i really need it :)
johan
On 2/19/07, Igor Vaynberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
yes, tracking is easy with our new event thing :)
get on it matej!
-igor
On 2/19/07, Johan Compagner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
attach an onfocus event on all focusable components
then have a javascript variable in the page that gets that
assigned
input type=text
onfocus=lastfocuscomponent=this;MaybeAnAjaxCall
then i prepend a script that uses that lastfocuscomponent variable
to
get
the focus back in.
Ofcourse the onFocus event should be cleared or ignored for one
time
if
there is an MaybeAnAjaxCall ...
so the tracking is pretty easy, it is the handling after that.
johan
On 2/19/07, Matej Knopp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
the question is, how exactly you want to track the changing of
focus?
-Matej
Johan Compagner wrote:
if i have an ajax behavior on a text field event: onfocus
and i set the background and then add that component to the
ajax
event
for
redraw
then i loose focus. Ofcourse there are ways to go around
that..
for example i could just write the style tag out instead of
the
complete
component.
But what when it gets a bit harder? (like a parent is altered
and
rerendered)
i could attach a behavior (onfocus) to all components and let
them
set
the last know focus component. And then append to every ajax
call
a
script:
if (lastfocuscomponent) lastfocuscomponent.focus();
the problem with this is that this focus gained should be
ignored
if
there
was an ajax focus
gained event that the server wants to receive , else you could
have an
endless loop.
Can't wicket do this for the developer?
so track the latest focus component when an ajax call is
dispatched.
And
when it returns
set the focus back (and then ignore that focus gained
event...)
johan
