> > On Jun 12, 2008, at 2:26 PM, Marius Dumitru Florea 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. >> >> Yes, I'd like to show only a dashed (maybe) border and, possibly, a >> background-color with some opacity level. This way I move only a div >> with >> its border, background-color and opacity and hide or leave in the same >> place the dialog box, while dragging. > > hmm... so it means we're doing pretty low level stuff and that GWT is > not offering much tools. I'm a bit worried that we're developing more > than we should. This will mean lots of maintenance too. > > Isn't there any existing solutions for this?
I'd say that what GWT gives us is not scalable all the time. I'll look for alternatives GWT libraries for both dialog boxes and drag&drop logic. But, you don't have something against using dialog boxes? I know Anca has. > > Thanks > -Vincent > > PS: Please bear with me as I've never developed with GWT so I don't > know what's available or not. > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
