[OpenAjaxGadgets] Request a widget mode
Howard Weingram
weingram at tibco.com
Mon Apr 13 17:47:22 PDT 2009
Hi Rich.
getMode()
I tentatively added getMode() to the API wiki page and the oawidget.js
JavaScript interface file in SVN. It simply makes sense.
http://www.openajax.org/member/wiki/OpenAjax_Metadata_1.0_Specification_Widg
et_APIs#OpenAjax.widget.WidgetAdapter.prototype.getMode
Startup Coordination
What mode are your widgets in before the modeChanged event?
Regards,
Howard
On 4/13/09 5:45 AM, "Rich Thompson" <richt2 at us.ibm.com> wrote:
> We have had a number of use cases come to light recently where the
> preferred user experience is achieved by the following loading sequence:
>
> 1. onLoad -> informs the widget to initialize itself
> 2. any and all queued events are delivered to the widget (could have been
> sourced by the container or other widgets)
> 3. onModeChanged -> widget renders itself
>
> This keeps the screen from going through a visual state where all of the
> widgets appear uncoordinated followed by an immediate shift into a
> coordinated state.
>
> That is a bit of an aside (though related) to the original thread, but I
> would prefer a getMode() over having both the container and the widget
> remember the current mode.
>
> Rich Thompson
>
>
>
>
> From:
> Howard Weingram <weingram at tibco.com>
> To:
> Jon Ferraiolo/Menlo Park/IBM at IBMUS
> Cc:
> "gadgets at openajax.org" <gadgets at openajax.org>
> Date:
> 04/10/2009 03:58 PM
> Subject:
> Re: [OpenAjaxGadgets] Request a widget mode
>
>
>
> Hi, Jon.
>
> Thanks for the comment.
>
> There is no onModeChanged at the time of the widget constructor or at the
> time of onLoad, when the widget is first rendering. A mode change may
> occur
> later, but it may be much later.
>
> Unless onLoad must always be followed immediately by modeChanged (which is
> a
> poor approach), I'll add getMode().
>
> Regards,
> Howard
>
>
> On 4/10/09 12:00 PM, "Jon Ferraiolo" <jferrai at us.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> I'm OK with adding getMode(), but I'll point out that a widget has
> enough
>> information now to figure out what mode it's in due to the onModeChanged
>> event. But it would be convenient to have getMode() so that the widget
>> wouldn't have to store away some sort of _mode private variable.
>>
>> Jon
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Howard Weingram
>> <weingram at tibco.c
>> om> To
>> Howard Weingram
>> 04/10/2009 11:32 <weingram at tibco.com>, Jon
>> AM Ferraiolo/Menlo Park/IBM at IBMUS
>> cc
>> "gadgets at openajax.org"
>> <gadgets at openajax.org>
>> Subject
>> Re: [OpenAjaxGadgets] Request a
>> widget mode
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> (Specifically because widget.xml allows the same content to be used for
>> multiple modes; so how does such a widget know its mode when 1st
> rendered?)
>>
>> Regards,
>> Howard
>>
>>
>> On 4/10/09 9:42 AM, "Howard Weingram" <weingram at tibco.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Do we need a function:
>>>
>>> getMode()
>>>
>>> ?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Howard
>>>
>>>
>>> On 4/10/09 7:31 AM, "Jon Ferraiolo" <jferrai at us.ibm.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> +1
>>>>
>>>> Jon
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Howard Weingram
>>>> <weingram at tibco.c
>>>> om>
>> To
>>>> Sent by: "gadgets at openajax.org"
>>>> gadgets-bounces at o <gadgets at openajax.org>
>>>> penajax.org
>> cc
>>>>
>>>>
>> Subject
>>>> 04/09/2009 06:31 [OpenAjaxGadgets] Request a
>> widget
>>>> PM mode
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I would like to add a function that allows a widget to request
>> transition
>>>> to
>>>> a different mode. The only indication of success would be a
> modeChanged
>>>> event delivered to the widget at some future time.
>>>>
>>>> /**
>>>> * @param {String} newMode
>>>> * The name of the mode to which the widget is
>>>> * requesting transition
>>>> */
>>>> OpenAjax.widget.Adapter.prototype.requestMode(newMode) {}
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Use Case
>>>>
>>>> For example, a Help mode screen may contain a button that sends the
>> widget
>>>> back to View mode. This button is INSIDE the widget rather than
> outside
>> in
>>>> the container. This could simply transition the widget, but then any
>>>> container buttons would be out of sync because the container does not
>> know
>>>> about the change.
>>>>
>>>> With the requestMode, the button would not actually switch modes; it
>> would
>>>> call requestMode('view') and this would tell the container to switch
> the
>>>> mode.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Compatibility with Other Standards
>>>>
>>>> This behavior would be comparable to that of javax.portlet, which
>> specifies
>>>> that a portlet can "programmatically change [its] portlet mode when
>>>> processing an action request."
>>>>
>>>> In other words, in the portlet world, there is a standard way for a
>> portlet
>>>> to request that the portlet container execute a mode change.
>>>>
>>>> The portlet spec allows the portlet container to ignore or override
> the
>>>> mode-change request. It is only a request.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Howard
>>>>
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