Hi jreue; Thank you very very much for the explanation.
I couldn't find any explanation like this about this topic on the web. I am going to start implementing this right now. Thank you again Regards 2009/8/12 jreue <[email protected]> > > You should only need one html page. This is the main html page that > you already have in your project. If you have done swing work, think > of that html page as your JFrame if you will. > > I'll run through a simple example that should at least get you on your > feet. > > Your html page could define the basic skeleton layout of your app, say > a header at the top, a panel of your links right under it, and the > rest of the bottom portion of the page is content that will change > dynamically depending on the link clicked. > > In your html page you could define <div>'s that define where these > panels will go and give them an identifier id. > > <div class="header" id="header"></div> > <div class="linksPanel" id="linksPanel"></div> > <div class="contentPanel" id="contentPanel"></div> > > In your corresponding css file, add the necessary definitions to > layout your page, size, borders, etc of each div. > > First you could create a class called MyContentPanel. It could be a > singleton with static methods of getInstance() and replaceContent(). > This was you will have 1 content panel you can access statically. > > public class MyContentPanel extends VerticalPanel > { > private static MyContentPanel INSTANCE = null; > > // do not allow outside instantiation > private MyContentPanel() > { > //do layout panel stuff etc > } > > public synchronized static MyContentPanel getInstance() > { > if (INSTANCE==null) > INSTANCE = new MyContentPanel(); > return INSTANCE; > } > > public static void replaceContent(Widget widget) > { > MyContentPanel content = getInstance(); > .. > remove all current children using getWidgetCount and remove(int) > or remove(Widget) > .. > content.add(widget); > > } > } > > > > For your link section, you could create a class called MyLinkPanel > that extends Composite (or maybe HorizontalPanel, etc) that defines > your link panel. You could set up handlers on the links that would be > responsible for firing an event to show a particular page in the > MyContentPanel. > > Lets say when you click link1, it needs to show a particular page in > the ContentPanel. Well, create your page again as a class that extends > again, Composite or some panel or whatever. Lets say we call it > MyLoginPage. On the handler on link1 could make a static call to pop > it on the content panel like so: > > MyContentPanel.replaceContent(new MyLoginPage()); > > > Lets say your app is called MyApp, you will have a MyApp.java file > that implements EntryPoint where you will implement the method > onModuleLoad(). This would be responsible do initializing your app by > > > public class MyApp implements EntryPoint > { > public void onModuleLoad( ) > { > RootPanel.get("header").add(new HeaderPanel()); > RootPanel.get("linkPanel").add(new MyLinkPanel()); > > // add the singleton panel to the contentPanel div > RootPanel.get("contentPanel").add(ContentPanel.getInstance()); > } > } > > > > Now that the framework is defined, you can just create new panels > instead of HTML pages and put them in the content panel by calling the > static ContentPanel.replaceContent(widget) method. > > Remember, think java, not html. It's kind of why GWT was invented :) > > > > On Aug 11, 2:01 pm, Alexei Telles <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello everybody.. > > > > I am just beginning with GWT development and this is my first post. > > I have some experience with web development. > > > > I am using Eclipse as IDE for developing. > > I created an GWT project using the GWT plugin for Eclipse. > > > > So far, so good... > > Eclipse created the packages, classes, etc.. > > > > I am able to change the client and the server-side, make deploy on > > tomcat. > > Everithing is working fine. > > > > My question is: > > > > I need to develop an application that will heavy many pages. > > Do I need one GWT project to each page of my application? > > Or can I have many HTML's in my WAR folder and only one project? > > > > My idea is to have some links in the top of these pages. > > Each link to a page of the application. > > > > I am not sure how to do that. > > I've searching for in the web, but I got nothing about. > > > > Can anybody give me a little help about? > > > > Thanks in advance > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
