Gracefully Degrading Lightbox from Command Column

[Joel Turnbull]

Ok well I'm not necessarily tied to lightbox, I just thought it would be
cool. I've been playing with something like this instead.

renderCellLinkContent: aFoo on: html

    self commands
        do: [ :each |
            html submitButton
                onClick: 'confirm(''Are you sure you wish to remove', aFoo
name,'?''); return false';
                callback: [ each key value: aFoo ];
                with: each value ]
        separatedBy: [ html space ]

The callback does the WAComponent confirm:.

So this degrades well, my only problem is, I don't know how to get the
result of the js dialog it and call removeFoo: aFoo if it's true.

Joel


On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Lukas Renggli <renggli at gmail.com> wrote:

> >> The point is that the light-box does not use Javascript (AJAX) to get
> >> it displayed, so it will generate the HTML either way. JavaScript is
> >> only used afterwards to get the dialog centered in the middle of the
> >> page and have the background dimmed. I haven't seen a lightbox yet
> >> that can do this cross-browser only using CSS.
> >
> > How would a lightbox get displayed without using js?
> > You have to do something to get the lightbox to display,
> > that something requires javascript to happen.
>
> No. #lightbox: is like #call:. It does a full refresh to the server
> and generates a completely new page with the background and lightbox
> HTML. The only difference between #call: and #lightbox: is that call
> does not render the parent component, #lightbox: does to make it shine
> through using some CSS effects. You can easily observe that in
> FireBug.
>
> Now of course there are nicer ways to do a lightbox, e.g. by loading
> the dialog using an AJAX call. However this does not work as part of a
> flow and requires you to write and adapt some Javascript code to work
> with your page layout.
>
> Lukas
>
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