Thanks Anirudh,
Do you mean that the form should have no ActionForm associated with it?
(Currently I am using an ActionForm to pass the value of the contextID)
I did not know that one could pass params to an action with the
"action.do?p1=value&p2=value" technique.
Where does one place the call to the Help() function?
In the form onsubmit() method? Or on the button onclick() method?
Should it be like this:
<html:form action="/help" method="POST" target="HelpWindow"
onsubmit="javascript:Help()" >
<html:hidden property="contextID" value="homePage" />
<map name="Map">
<area shape="rect" coords="2,0,50,13" href=""
onclick="javascript:document.helpActionForm.submit()">
</map>
</html:form>
TIA -Adam
-----Original Message-----
From: Anirudh Jayanth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 29 June 2004 13:19
To: 'Struts Users Mailing List'
Subject: RE: NEWBIE - How to submit form and display results in popup window
with no browser decorations.
You could use a javascript function to achieve this..
function Help(document,val) {
window.open('Action.do&_contextId='+val,'win','toolbar=no,location=no,di
rectories=no,status=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=no,width=400,
height=210,left=0,top=0')
}
In the action retrieve the context id as request.getParameter("_contextId");
The dispatch logic then resides in the action
Anirudh Jayanth
SysArris Software
120A, Elephant Rock Road,
3rd Block, Jayanagar,
Bangalore - 560011
Tel: 6655165 / 052 [ ext - 243 ]
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-----Original Message-----
From: Adam Lipscombe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 5:16 PM
To: 'Struts Users Mailing List'
Subject: NEWBIE - How to submit form and display results in popup window
with no browser decorations.
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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