Folks,
>From browsing the list archive I can see that this sort of questions gets
asked frequently. I looked at the solutions but none seem, to fit my case:
I am trying to implement a popup window context-sensitive help system for a
struts app.
My solution so far is to have a help button in its own form, and the form
has a hidden "contextID" field.
This contextID is stored in the ActionForm and allows the Action to decide
which help screen to display.
This is easy enough do if one just wants a new window (using
target="<WindowName>" in the html:form tag).
However the new window has all the normal browser buttons etc.
e.g.:
<html:form action="/help" method="POST" target="HelpWindow" >
<html:hidden property="context" value="homePage" />
<map name="Map">
<area shape="rect" coords="2,0,50,13" href="" >
</map>
</html:form>
Critically, I want to display the help in a popup window that has no browser
decorations (navigation buttons, text labels etc). I need to specify the
width and height of the popup.
I looked at Ted Husted's solution "Use Struts JSP Tags to create dynamic
JavaScripts" (http://husted.com/struts/tips/010.htm).
If I understand this solution correctly, it uses html:rewrite's to call
global forwards that pass parameters to a JSP. In my case this could work,
but seems to imply that some dispatch logic (i.e. which help page to
display, dependent on the context) resides in the receiving JSP.
I would rather that the dispatch logic resides in an Action.
How can this be done?
TIA - Adam
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