See the PopupPanel or DialogBox class...that should allow you to do exactly what you want.
In GWT terms your "standard" page will be acting as the host page for your GWT popup stuff you plan on displaying. Your use case fits in with all the tutorials of how to get up an going in GWT. You're just not inserting widgets, etc into existing slots on the screen, you're showing a popup (which handles inserting itself into the page). On Apr 25, 10:28 am, Richard <[email protected]> wrote: > First, thanks for taking this question on, second all kinds of > apologies in advance if I mess-up on terminologies / technologies as I > attempt to describe the problem: > > Can a GWT-built page be made to "float" above an existing HTML/CSS/ > Javascript page that has been built with typical (but non-GWT) tools > and frameworks? > > By "float" I mean the kind of cool trickery you can get out of JQuery, > etc. to have some HTML up above the existing page, where the existing > page suddenly is covered with a translucent "smoked glass" effect, and > the "floating" stuff is clear, has focus, and is usable, before you > close it to return to the underlying original page. > > Initial attempts at this have failed. > > Is GWT too comprehensive to end up in an iFrame (or whatever DOM > object JQuery is using)... does it need to own the <html> and / or > <head> tags so it can present its nocache statement? > > Altogether: > > Is there any way to get my GWT page (which works beautifully as a > stand-alone) to live in the same window as (as top layer above) a pre- > existing page??? > > Thank you so much. -- 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.
