Have you considered using GWT tabs or some other ui feature (roll your own if you have to) that would provide multiple views other than opening multiple browser windows or tabs? I really don't like it when applications open multiple browser windows or tabs and consider that a UI faux pas :).
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 8:44 AM, Terje Andre Johansen < [email protected]> wrote: > I am working on a project where I am using GWT to visualize biological > data in several ways. This is done by searching for a gene by name, > and what I want to happen is for each visualization to get its own > window to display its data. The reason for this is that there is huge > amounts of data, and trying to fit more than one visualization in one > page is not a ideal way to do it. > > One of the goals for the project is to enable interaction between > these visualization. In short this means that if a user clicks on a > gene in one view, a similar event/method should be invoked in the > other views as well. The newly opened windows will have the same > parent and be in the same domain. > > I have looked at the GWT API, and so far only found the static void > method Window.open(url, name, features). As far as I understand this > means that I cannot get hold of the new window as an object to invoke > methods on. Neither did I find the equivalent to the JS method > window.opener() to get hold of the parent object in the newly opened > window. > > I am wondering if anyone has worked with a similar problem and got > some an idea of how to enable Window interaction using GWT. > > Help is appreciated. > > -- > 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]<google-web-toolkit%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en. > > -- *Jeff Schwartz* -- 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.
