Allen,
I am trying to implement ajaz in my struts app.
I don;t know how how ajax anabled div works.can you
please elamorate or send the example.
shiva
--- Allen Gilliland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> i'm guessing that this is a pretty common problem
> but i couldn't find
> any examples on the struts2 docs, i would like to
> know how best to go
> about doing a popup/overlay form using struts2 +
> ajax.
>
> so for example, if the user is on a page and clicks
> a link like "add
> category" that link would popup/overlay a simple
> form on top of the
> existing page and allow the user to enter in the
> necessary information
> and submit it. the submit would happen
> asynchronously and after the
> form is successfully submitted the overlay would
> close and an element on
> the underlying page would be refreshed to contain
> the new data.
>
> what i have so far is an ajax enabled div and an
> ajax enable anchor
> which can pull the form ...
>
> <s:a theme="ajax" href="%{addCategoryUrl}"
> targets="addCategoryFormDiv">Add Category</s:a>
>
> <s:div theme="ajax" href="%{listCategoriesUrl}"
> listenTopics="/refreshCats" />
>
> <div id="addCategoryFormDiv"></div>
>
> so with these elements I can have my categories
> listed on a page using
> my s:div and if I publish a "/refreshCats" event
> then that div
> refreshes. then if my s:a link is clicked it will
> use the response to
> display in the specified div below my category list,
> but that's as far
> as i have been able to get.
>
> what i don't fully understand is how to ...
>
> 1. get the form to be an overlay instead of just
> showing up on the page.
> does dojo/struts2 have built-in support for this
> somehow?
>
> 2. how to properly setup the form so that when the
> user submits it to
> add a new category that it closes the overlay form
> and publishes a
> "/refreshCats" event.
>
> This is how I have defined the form which gets
> asynchronously loaded
> when the "Add Category" link is clicked ...
>
> <s:form action="categoryAdd" theme="ajax">
> <s:textfield name="newCatName" />
> <s:submit type="button" />
> </s:form>
>
> i can then submit the form and have the category get
> added, but i don't
> fully understand how to properly cause the form to
> close and then how to
> publish the "/refreshCats" event.
>
> can anyone offer some advice or examples on how to
> accomplish what i am
> trying to do? i am happy to take my working code
> and put it together
> into an example on the struts2 documentation as
> well.
>
> -- Allen
>
>
>
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