Yep, your right it is not a parent. I learned that in my journey trying to
figure out this issue. Just part of the page that you can stick out there
by itself for a minute. Understanding this concept does help a great deal
when using cfwindow.
Wish I would have grasped that at the very beginning.
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 8:00 AM, Andrew Scott <andrew.sc...@aegeon.com.au>wrote:
>
> Can you please explain to me why you call it the parent page?
>
> From what I can tell the cfwindow is called from the page request called,
> if
> that is the case there is no such thing as a parent page!!
>
> Even though it looks like a window and behaves like a window, doesnt make
> it
> a child in the context of a window in a browser. If you do a views ource,
> you will notice that it is just div containers in the page.
>
> What that means is that you dont reference it with parent.functionName() as
> you would with normal JS and browser windows. Just dont confuse yourself
> more by calling it a parent.
>
> Parent and such is more of a reference for JS when you open a window from
> within JS with the document.open().
>
> Regards,
> Andrew Scott
>
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Nando <d.na...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > I also had to tackle this problem in the particular context of the data
> in
> > a
> > cfgrid. I didn't need to refresh the whole page, but the problem seem to
> be
> > that the grid would refresh before the changes made in the cfwindow
> fields
> > were persisted. Perhaps the same is happening in your case?
> >
> > The solution I came up with was to use cfajaxproxy to set up means to
> > persist data via a javascript and submit the form to a javascript method
> on
> > the parent page. That way, the steps can be sequenced.
> >
> > Here's some sample code, copied from a working implementation that you
> can
> > probably adapt.
> >
> > // set up the proxy and import the ext library needed to build the
> buttons
> > i
> > use ...
> >
> > <cfajaxproxy cfc="remote.RemoteGateway" jsclassname="dataproxy">
> > <script type="text/javascript"
> > src="/CFIDE/scripts/ajax/ext/package/toolbar/toolbar.js"></script>
> >
> > <script type="text/javascript">
> > var dataproxy = new dataproxy();
> >
> > // set up grid, adding buttons with handlers
> >
> > function initGrid() {
> > grid = ColdFusion.Grid.getGridObject("RecipeHerbGrid");
> > var gridFoot = grid.getView().getFooterPanel(true);
> > var bbar = new Ext.Toolbar(gridFoot);
> > bbar.addButton({
> > cls:"x-btn-text-icon",
> > icon:"icons/add.png",
> > handler:onAdd
> > });
> > bbar.addSeparator();
> > bbar.addButton({
> > text:"Delete Selected",
> > cls:"x-btn-text-icon",
> > icon:"icons/delete.png",
> > handler:onDelete
> > });
> > }
> >
> > // this method is fired when the Add button is clicked, opening the add
> > recipe window
> >
> > function onAdd(button,event){
> > ColdFusion.Window.show('addRecipeHerbWindow');
> > }
> >
> > // when the Save button is clicked in the form in the add recipe window,
> it
> > calls this function
> > // NOTE: the button in the form is not a type="submit" - it's a
> > type="button" - this is important
> > // this function acts as a proxy to the addRecipeHerb() method in the
> > remote.RemoteGateway CFC
> > // so in effect, the form submission is persisted, then the window is
> > hidden,
> > // and then the grid is refreshed. You could refresh the whole page if
> > needed at this point
> >
> > function addRecipeHerb() {
> > var f = document.frmRecipeHerb;
> > dataproxy.addNewRecipeHerb (
> > f.recipeVariationId.value,
> > f.herbId.value,
> > f.weight.value
> > );
> > ColdFusion.Window.hide('addRecipeHerbWindow');
> > ColdFusion.Grid.refresh('RecipeHerbGrid', true);
> > }
> >
> > // here are the functions for the delete button to make it complete
> >
> > var grid = ColdFusion.Grid.getGridObject("RecipeHerbGrid");
> > var record = grid.getSelections();
> > // remember, CF makes column names to all UPPERCASE, so dont forget to
> > do that
> > dataproxy.deleteRecipeHerb(record[0].data.RECIPEHERBID);
> > }
> > ColdFusion.Window.hide('deleteRecipeHerbWin');
> > ColdFusion.Grid.refresh('RecipeHerbGrid', true);
> > }
> >
> > function editRecipeHerb() {
> > var grid = ColdFusion.Grid.getGridObject("RecipeHerbGrid");
> > var record = grid.getSelections();
> > dataproxy.editRecipeHerb (
> > record[0].data.RECIPEHERBID,
> > record[0].data.THEWEIGHT,
> > record[0].data.PINYIN
> > );
> > ColdFusion.Grid.refresh('RecipeHerbGrid', true);
> > }
> >
> > // and the cfwindow code block. Note again that the submit buttons are
> > type="button"
> >
> > <cfwindow closable="true" modal="true" name="addRecipeHerbWindow"
> > title="Add
> > Recipe Herb" width="250" height="140" x="300" y="250">
> > <form name="frmRecipeHerb">
> > <input type="hidden" name="recipeVariationId"
> > value="#qMainRecipeVariation.recipeVariationId#">
> > <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
> > <tr>
> > <td class="label">Pin yin</td>
> > <td>
> > <select name="herbId" style="width:150px;">
> > <cfloop query="qPinYinList">
> > <option class="l1"
> > value="#herbId#">#pinYin#</option></cfloop>
> > </select>
> > </td>
> > </tr>
> > <tr>
> > <td class="label">Gewicht</td>
> > <td><input type="text" class="text" name="weight" value=""
> > style="width:50px;" /></td>
> > </tr>
> > </table>
> > <!--- instead of type=submit, this uses type=button --->
> > <div align="right" style="margin:10px 0 0 0;"><input type="button"
> > class="submit" value="Save" onclick="javascript:addRecipeHerb();"
> /></div>
> > </form>
> > </cfwindow>
> >
> > <cfwindow width="250" height="140" x="300" y="250"
> > name="deleteRecipeHerbWin" modal="true" resizable="false" title="Delete
> > Recipe Herb?">
> > <div style="margin-left:5px;margin-top:5px;">
> > Delete the selected herb from the recipe?
> > <div align="center" style="padding-top:6px;">
> > <input type="button" value="Yes"
> onClick="deleteRecipeHerb('yes')">
> > <input type="button" value="No" onClick="deleteRecipeHerb('no')">
> > </div>
> > </cfwindow>
> >
> > It took me quite awhile over the last few days to get this to work ... so
> I
> > hope it helps you.
> >
> > Nando
> >
> > On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 2:53 AM, David Mineer <min...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > I am using a cfwindow that opens and displays some ajax based cfselects
> > and
> > > a 2 date selection input fields.
> > >
> > > This all works except when I close the window, the parent page does not
> > > refresh the values. The page seems to refresh and I know the values
> have
> > > been correctly set, but they do not show up. I am sending a
> > > document.location.reload() in the onclick of the submit button as well
> as
> > > the coldfusion.window.hide.
> > >
> > > I have seen a few posts on exactly this same thing but the answers are
> > not
> > > clear to me. I have toyed with coldfusion.navigate and other
> recommended
> > > solutions but nothing is working.
> > >
> > > Does anyone have any suggestions?
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > David Mineer Jr
> > > ---------------------
> > > The critical ingredient is getting off your
> > > butt and doing something. It's as simple
> > > as that. A lot of people have ideas, but
> > > there are few who decide to do
> > > something about them now. Not
> > > tomorrow. Not next week. But today.
> > > The true entrepreneur is a doer.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
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