> > On Jun 12, 2008, at 2:15 PM, Jerome Velociter wrote: > >>> Hi devs, >>> >>> While working on the new GWT-based WYSIWYG editor, I find out that >>> the >>> default DialogBox from GWT moves very slow when dragged if it >>> contains >>> many HTML elements (like a table with 10 rows and 20 columns). In the >>> current WYSIWYG editor dialog boxes are used for color picker, custom >>> character, insert image / attachment / macro / table. Before I start >>> porting these dialogs to GWT I'd like to ask you: >>> >>> Do you agree with using dialog boxes for these features? >>> * if so, do you think it's ok to optimize the way they are moved by >>> showing only their border while dragging (win95-like)? >> >> If you do so, what are you showing instead of the dialog content ? the >> content behind ? or a plain color ? >> I think the main use case (if not the only ?) for moving such >> dialogs is >> to see what's behind. In that case showing only the border and let the >> user see what's behind is good IMO. > > I can't believe GWT is not able to that properly and that some simple > javascript like we had was able to do it.
Vincent, the current WYSIWYG editor uses windows for implementing the dialog boxes. When you want to pick a color you open a window. You can see it in the desktop toolbar. You can see it even if you change the browser tab, which is not nice. Of course these windows are easily moved because the OS take care of that. In GWT dialog boxes are implemented using HTML elements (div for instance) and JavaScript for catching mouse moves and simulating drag&drop. > Is that a known issue of GWT? Yes. But I don't think the default DialogBox was made to be scalable. If you put only a button or so it moves very fast. I did some tests and it moves slower and slower as you put more HTML elements. > > Before we decide to use a degraded solution I'd like to be sure > there's no other way. > > Thanks > -Vincent > > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
