Hi! I'd like to announce that the latest tomahawk-sandbox (as per today) contains an enhanced version of the ModalDialog component.
Its now possible to render another view within the content area of the dialog. To achieve this I've added three new attributes to the component: dialogTitle - if wanted, this allows you to automatically get a window caption including the provided title. closeButton - true|false - renders a close button if true - this setting requires a dialogTitle, otherwise no caption will be rendered at all. viewId - the JSF viewId you would like to render within the dialog Its also possible to add a submitOnEvent to this style of dialog box which allows you to issue a submit once the user closed the window "using the ok button". In reality we do not know if you even have a OK button in your dialog view, so you simply have to set a js var to true to indicate the dismiss was due to an OK action. Important parts from the examples Example [1]: <s:modalDialog dialogId="viewDialog" dialogVar="viewDialog" styleClass="viewDialog" dialogTitle="ViewId Dialog" closeButton="true" viewId="dojo/dojoDialogView.jsf"> <s:submitOnEvent event="dialogok" for="dismissAction" /> </s:modalDialog> Example [2] (see the _myfaces_ok stuff): <h:outputLink value="#" onclick="window.parent._myfaces_currentModal._myfaces_ok=true;window.parent._myfaces_currentModal.hide();"> <h:outputText value="close window" /> </h:outputLink> There are some css style you can use to customize your dialog: Global styles: modalDialogDecoration - the caption table modalDialogTitle - the caption title row modalDialogTitleLeft - the caption title cell modalDialogTitleRight - the caption icons cell modalDialogCloser - the close-icon image modalDialogContent - the iframe Specific styles - according to the styles above you can also use {styleClass}Decoration, {styleClass}Title, {styleClass}TitleLeft, {styleClass}TitleRight, {styleClass}Closer, {styleClass}Content where you have to replace {styleClass} with the text provided at the styleClass attribute of your modalDialog component. See the .viewDialog* style configurations in [1] on how to configure the size of the component. Well, hope this is of any help for someone else too. PS: Maybe someone is willing to create a documentation for the ModalDialog component and adding this text? To a Wiki at least ... ? Thanks in advance! Have fun! Ciao, Mario [1] http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/myfaces/tomahawk/trunk/sandbox/examples/src/main/webapp/dojo/dojoDialog.jsp?view=markup [2] http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/myfaces/tomahawk/trunk/sandbox/examples/src/main/webapp/dojo/dojoDialogView.jsp?view=markup