Thank you Thiago, I got it!
Bye,
larzen
> Sent: Monday, August 03, 2015 at 11:56 PM
> From: "Thiago H de Paula Figueiredo" <thiag...@gmail.com>
> To: "Tapestry users" <users@tapestry.apache.org>
> Subject: Re: Filling some filed of a form selecting a row from a grid
>
> On Mon, 03 Aug 2015 18:24:45 -0300, Luca Arzeni <l.arz...@iname.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi Thiago,
>
> Hi!
>
> > invoice.
> >
> > At this point you need to select a customer: you can insert a customer
> > number, but, if you don't know it, you can press the search button at
> > the right of the customer number and the system will open a popup
> > showing you a list of customers.
> >
> > You can choose one of them, and, after the selection, the popup will
> > close, and the data of the selected customer will fill in you form.
> > I was trying to mimic this behavior.
>
> Ok, now I think it's better explained.
>
> > What would be your way to do this? May be there is a simpler way, that I
> > didn't spot, for solving this problem in tapestry?
>
> I'd do what I proposed above.
>
> Tapestry or not, there's basically two ways of doing what you want: 1)
> doing an AJAX request that, after the option is selected, rerenders the
> form with the corresponding fields filled and 2) use some JavaScript to
> copy the values from the listing to the form. 1) can be easily done in
> Tapestry using two zones: one around the form, one for showing the options
> (list of customers). In the options, you'd have an EventLink which would
> have the customer id as its context and its handler would use it to
> pre-fill the properties which are bound to the form's search fields. 2) is
> very easy if you know *basic* JavaScript. Like this (not tested, not
> dynamic, but can be very easily made dynamic):
> document.getElementById('address').value =
> document.getElementById('address-from-grid').value.
>
> > Also, I understand that the fields in the invoice form could be wrapped
> > in a zone and updated after the selection, but I don't understand how
> > can I show a popup to the user, allow him to choose the customer, and
> > get the data back to my form.
>
> Unless you're talking about the much rated browser popups, popups are
> merely CSS things. With CSS and a little bit of JavaScript you can make
> parts of your page resize, appear or disappear. Anyway, that's outside the
> scope of this mailing list.
>
> --
> Thiago H. de Paula Figueiredo
> Tapestry, Java and Hibernate consultant and developer
> http://machina.com.br
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