ASP.NET modal dialog effect
Folks, we have a traditional ASP.NET page with a need for a popup product picker. We need that mock modal dialog effect you get (for example) in Gmail where you do things like Export Contacts, create New Group, etc. Gmail even has a nice effect where the background disables and the popup has a drop shadow and a close X button to simulate a real model window in a web page. What is the quickest and least painful way of getting this modal dialog effect in an ASP.NET page? My previous experience with Javascript and ASP.NET combined has been a nightmare of quirks and failure trying to manage the lifetime and interaction of the two. So I'm hoping there are some kits or tools to help me. Any advice would be greatly appreciated so I can knock-up a demo asap. Thanks Greg
RE: ASP.NET modal dialog effect
Hi Greg - I'd say it would be worth the overhead to include jQuery and a pop-up/modal like http://swip.codylindley.com/DOMWindowDemo.html Can pop-up using an IFRAME to contain another page, or a DIV on the current page, or via AJAX. However it's a client solution, nothing to do with ASP.NET server-side code. Thomas From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh Sent: Tuesday, 17 July 2012 9:55 AM To: 'ozDotNet' Subject: ASP.NET modal dialog effect Folks, we have a traditional ASP.NET page with a need for a popup product picker. We need that mock modal dialog effect you get (for example) in Gmail where you do things like Export Contacts, create New Group, etc. Gmail even has a nice effect where the background disables and the popup has a drop shadow and a close X button to simulate a real model window in a web page. What is the quickest and least painful way of getting this modal dialog effect in an ASP.NET page? My previous experience with Javascript and ASP.NET combined has been a nightmare of quirks and failure trying to manage the lifetime and interaction of the two. So I'm hoping there are some kits or tools to help me. Any advice would be greatly appreciated so I can knock-up a demo asap. Thanks Greg Peninsula Health - Metropolitan Health Service of the Year 2007 2009
Re: ASP.NET modal dialog effect
i've used this in the past with mvc, may be of use http://jqueryui.com/demos/dialog/#modal-form On 17/07/2012 7:59 AM, Williams, Thomas wrote: Hi Greg -- I'd say it would be worth the overhead to include jQuery and a pop-up/modal like http://swip.codylindley.com/DOMWindowDemo.html Can pop-up using an IFRAME to contain another page, or a DIV on the current page, or via AJAX. However it's a client solution, nothing to do with ASP.NET server-side code. Thomas *From:*ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Greg Keogh *Sent:* Tuesday, 17 July 2012 9:55 AM *To:* 'ozDotNet' *Subject:* ASP.NET modal dialog effect Folks, we have a traditional ASP.NET page with a need for a popup product picker. We need that mock modal dialog effect you get (for example) in Gmail where you do things like Export Contacts, create New Group, etc. Gmail even has a nice effect where the background disables and the popup has a drop shadow and a close X button to simulate a real model window in a web page. What is the quickest and least painful way of getting this modal dialog effect in an ASP.NET page? My previous experience with Javascript and ASP.NET combined has been a nightmare of quirks and failure trying to manage the lifetime and interaction of the two. So I'm hoping there are some kits or tools to help me. Any advice would be greatly appreciated so I can knock-up a demo asap. Thanks Greg Peninsula Health - Metropolitan Health Service of the Year 2007 2009
Re: ASP.NET modal dialog effect
My previous experience with Javascript and ASP.NET http://asp.net/ combined has been a nightmare of quirks and failure trying to manage the lifetime and interaction of the two. I've never had a problem of this sort. On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 9:54 AM, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: Folks, we have a traditional ASP.NET page with a need for a popup “product picker”. We need that mock modal dialog effect you get (for example) in Gmail where you do things like Export Contacts, create New Group, etc. Gmail even has a nice effect where the background disables and the popup has a drop shadow and a close X button to simulate a real model window in a web page. ** ** What is the quickest and least painful way of getting this modal dialog effect in an ASP.NET page? ** ** My previous experience with Javascript and ASP.NET combined has been a nightmare of quirks and failure trying to manage the lifetime and interaction of the two. So I’m hoping there are some kits or tools to help me. Any advice would be greatly appreciated so I can knock-up a demo asap. ** ** Thanks Greg -- *Michael Ridland | ThinkSmart Digital* Managing Director P. 0404 865 350 E. mich...@thinksmartdigital.com.au W. www.thinksmartdigital.com.au T. www.twitter.com/rid00z L. au.linkedin.com/in/michaelridland http://au.linkedin.com/in/michaelridland
RE: ASP.NET modal dialog effect
Hi Greg, Along with what the other guys have said, I'd add a vote for try to avoid the need for anything modal if possible. Is there any way to avoid the need for it to be modal? Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410 mobile│ +61 3 8676 4913 fax SQL Down Under | Web: http://www.sqldownunder.com/ www.sqldownunder.com From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh Sent: Tuesday, 17 July 2012 9:55 AM To: 'ozDotNet' Subject: ASP.NET modal dialog effect Folks, we have a traditional ASP.NET page with a need for a popup product picker. We need that mock modal dialog effect you get (for example) in Gmail where you do things like Export Contacts, create New Group, etc. Gmail even has a nice effect where the background disables and the popup has a drop shadow and a close X button to simulate a real model window in a web page. What is the quickest and least painful way of getting this modal dialog effect in an ASP.NET page? My previous experience with Javascript and ASP.NET combined has been a nightmare of quirks and failure trying to manage the lifetime and interaction of the two. So I'm hoping there are some kits or tools to help me. Any advice would be greatly appreciated so I can knock-up a demo asap. Thanks Greg
RE: ASP.NET modal dialog effect
Along with what the other guys have said, I'd add a vote for try to avoid the need for anything modal if possible. Is there any way to avoid the need for it to be modal? I don't generally like modal stuff unless it's something that really deserves the user's attention and this could be one. The web page order form has no spare space to have a product picker which contain hundreds of categorised items. It used to be a ComboBox but it was too long. Then it was a context menu but it has unfriendly fly-out behaviour. Now we're considering a modal popup, which would be my natural choice in a desktop app. Greg (K)
RE: ASP.NET modal dialog effect
My previous experience with Javascript and http://asp.net/ ASP.NET combined has been a nightmare of quirks and failure trying to manage the lifetime and interaction of the two. I've never had a problem of this sort. Then I must be an idiot. A few months ago it took me 3 hours to write a few lines of Javascript that enabled some controls when you changed other controls, and when I thought it was working beautifully in different browsers I discovered that a page load sometimes upset the sequence of events and it failed. So I stuff different bits of code into the different emit events in the ASP.NET page lifetime and it just gets worse and incomprehensible. Someone in here said that javascript is like the assembly language of the web ... well yeah, it's hell to write it yourself. The whole history of the web, html and scripting is a gigantic mess of uncoordinated hacks and half-baked ideas, compounded by different standards and browser behaviour. Once day we'll all look back and laugh at the days of html5 when gigantic compiler generated non human readable scripts were driving rectangles and lines across browser screens. I'm laughing already. Greg
RE: ASP.NET modal dialog effect
However it's a client solution, nothing to do with ASP.NET server-side code. Although I do have to get ASP.NET to emit the correct scripts for the client-side dialog to work. I'm following the links and looking around -- Greg
