As long as the gadget is coded correctly, making shindig render the canvas
view is as simple as appending &view=canvas to the iframe URL.
For example the iframe url would look something like (bits in caps is what
you would fill in your self, oh and make sure to also append the user
preferences and optional params from requestNavigateTo to this url as well)
:
http://<SHINDIG>/gadgets/ifr
?synd=<YOURCONTAINERNAME>
&container=<YOURCONTAINERNAME>
&viewer=<VIEWER ID>
&owner=<OWNER ID>
&aid=<APPLICATION ID, CAN BE NUMERIC OR GADGET URL>
&mid=<MODULE ID (AKA '4TH GADGET ON THIS PAGE')
&country=<COUNTRY CODE>
&lang=<LANG CODE>
*&view=<INSERT VIEW NAME HERE: profile, home, canvas, preview>
*&parent=<CONTAINER URL>
&up_<FOO>=<BAR>
&st=<LONG ENCRYPTED TOKEN>
&v=<CACHE BUSTING MD5 OF THE GADGET XML>
&url=<URL OF GADGET'S XML FILE>
#rpctoken=<RANDOM UNIQUE NUMBER>
How internally you want to implement views (have different url's per view,
or some query param, etc) is really completely up to you, as long as you
write some javascript and hook it up to the requestNavigateTo rpc call, in
other words do something like:
function myRequestNavigateTo(view, opt_params) {
// do magic here
}
gadgets.rpc.register('requestNavigateTo', myRequestNavigateTo);
A simple example of that can be found in partuza's implementation:
http://code.google.com/p/partuza/source/browse/trunk/html/js/container.js
Since you didn't give us a whole lot of background, I'm hoping this generic
answer is useful, but if not please share a bit more information about what
your attempting to do and how, so we can respond in more detail too :)
-- Chris
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 9:51 PM, David Benge <[email protected]> wrote:
> As always thanks for the help Chris.
> The article you sent is nice but it talks about the view from the gadget
> developers point of view. I think my issue is when I switch to canvas view
> in the display I am not asking the gadget to be rendered for that new view.
>
> Is there a list for Shindig implementers / container implementers? It
> would be great to have a place to discuss and reference items related to
> these topics.
>
> On 2/21/09 1:54 AM, "Chris Chabot" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hey David,
>
> The shindig-dev list is really intended for shindig (server) development,
> and not so much for general OpenSocial (client side) support. There are a
> number of googlegroups around this topic though.
>
> Have you looked at the OpenSocial tutorial btw? It's last paragraph is
> about
> how to use views:
>
> http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/articles/tutorial/tutorial-0.8.html#views
>
> If something doesn't work with that code, then it might be worth knowing
> what container your trying to run your gadget on.
>
> -- Chris
>
> On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 2:43 AM, David Benge <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Can someone point me to a post or thread on how to properly implement
> > views?
> > I seem to always have a undefined gadgets.views object even with the
> > feature included.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
>
>
