Thank you Chrisi and Matthias. I looked at the ADF solution and it seems pretty clean, I'll check if I can use it in a myfaces project
2006/5/21, Matthias Wessendorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Cosma- you can also have a look at ADF Faces dialog system. Go ahead to the ADF Faces user list here at Apache. -Matthias On 5/19/06, Werner Punz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Cosma Colanicchia schrieb: > > I was thinking about a solution for the popup window problem in JSF.. > > someone has suggested to use a simple javascript, but any user action > > on the caller page that hasn't be submitted isn't notified to the > > backing beans, and validations are not executed.. in my case, the > > current row of a dataTable isn't update with the clicked one. So I got > > an idea, I'm sharing it to know if it is praticable. > > > > The solution should be a new UICommand component, let's name it > > <s:commandPopupWindow>. When activated, the enclosing form is > > submitted as usual to itself (with validation executed if immediate is > > false, and all standard behaviours triggered with a normal commandLink > > or commandButton). But in the resulting page a javascript function is > > attached and automatically called in the onLoad body event handler, > > that opens the popupWindow. > > > > The tag should supports child <f:param> components to define > > parameters to be passed to the child window.. this could be done > > rendering an additional form on the resulting page with an hidden > > field for each <f:param> nested element, and having the javascript > > function submit that hidden form in the child window's target. > > > > What do you think about a solution of this type? I don't have any > > experience in writing JSF components, do you see any problem with > > implementing this behaviour? > > > You can use also the timed notifier sandbox component... > together with the rendered attribute ;-) > > -- Matthias Wessendorf Aechterhoek 18 48282 Emsdetten http://jroller.com/page/mwessendorf mwessendorf-at-gmail-dot-com
