Please... how to get that PopupPanel instance to come to life if it's being called from (and meant to overlay) a page that has nothing to do with GWT??? Thanks so much.
On Apr 26, 9:13 am, jhulford <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
