On 12/1/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi, I need to know the current State of the Current Dialog. Is there a way to know it?
There is no public API (on DialogContext) that gives you this information currently ... indeed, there is no guarantee that the underlying dialog system actually has any concept of "state" the way that the old implementation did. I would also consider needing to know the state as a potential red flag on your application design -- the focus should be on building pages that don't need to know such things. If you need information that is application specific, consider using the "data" object instead. Can you describe a use case for why the application would need to know the current state? Is this information something that can be inferred from stuff inside your "data" object instead? In the mean time, it would be possible to create your own version of BasicDialogContext with a public getState() method that would look at the top Position on the "positions" stack, and pull the State out of there, and configure the system to use that instead. You'll need to do cut-and-paste reuse, because this class was not designed to be subclassed. The design idea, as mentioned above, was to hide all the details about internal implementation. Note also that if you expose a State object to your application, you'll be depending on APIs that are internal to Shale and are *not* guaranteed to remain compatible across releases, so we'd better have a really good reason to do it :-). Thanks in advance
Mario
Craig
