GWT - Avoid to listen to events - gwt

I'm using SliderBar widget from Google Web Toolkit Incubator. By default, this widget listens to some keyboard events, e.g. left arrow. I'd like to know if there's a way to avoid the widget listens to those events.
I'm using UiBinder and tried to use the function unsinkEvents but nothing happens. Here's the snippet of code:
#UiField(provided = true)
SliderBar slbRotate;
public NewViewImpl() {
slbRotate = new SliderBar(-180,180);
slbRotate.setStepSize(10);
slbRotate.setCurrentValue(0);
slbRotate.setWidth("478px");
slbRotate.setHeight("22px");
slbRotate.unsinkEvents(Event.KEYEVENTS);
initWidget(binder.createAndBindUi(this));
}
I also used KeyCodes.KEY_LEFT in the argument of the unsinkEvents function, but doesn't work either.
Thanks.

With the
unsinkEvents
function.
I created a short example to show the basics:
import com.google.gwt.user.client.Event;
import com.google.gwt.user.client.Window;
import com.google.gwt.user.client.ui.TextBox;
public class ExtendedTextBox extends TextBox {
public ExtendedTextBox() {
sinkEvents(Event.KEYEVENTS);
}
#Override
public void onBrowserEvent(Event event) {
Window.alert("keypress");
}
public void unSinkKeyEvent(){
unsinkEvents(Event.KEYEVENTS);
}
}
This example creates a TextBox and whenever you press a key two MessageBoxes (one for the keydown one for the keyup) pop up. If you call the unSinkKeyEvent function this behafios stops.
So if you don't want to have speciffic behavior on SliderBar widget you just have too call the unsinkEvents function an specify the event you don't want to have (just look at the help)
Regards,
Stefan

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How to add a Behavior to a component inside another Behavior added to that component in Wicket

I would like to add an AttributeAppender to a Component inside an AjaxEventBehavior using Apache Wicket. A Behavior has a getComponent() method but in the Constructor getComponent() obvioulsy returns null.
Now I pass the component to the Constructor of the AjaxEventBehavior and it's working but is this a good way to achieve my goal..
Here's what I'm doing:
AjaxTooltipBehavior:
public class AjaxTooltipBehavior extends AjaxEventBehavior {
public AjaxTooltipBehaviour(String event, Component tooltippedComponent) {
super(event);
tooltippedComponent.add(new AttributeAppender("data-tooltip","wicketAjaxTooltip"));
}
...
}
And that's the way I use it:
...
final WebMarkupContainer icon = new WebMarkupContainer("icon"); //a tooltiped icon
icon2.add(new AjaxTooltipBehaviour("mouseover",icon2)
I asked myself if there isn't a way to add the AttributeAppender to the componet without passing the component to the AjaxTooltipBehavior.
Does anyone know if this is possible in wicket or if there are better solutions?
FYI: I'm using wicket 1.6.
Thanks in advance for your support!
Ronny
Generally you would override Behavior#onBind(Component), but this method is made final in AbstractAjaxBehavior. But it will call onBind() and you use getComponent() there:
#Override
protected void onBind() {
super.onBind();
getComponent().add(new AttributeAppender("data-tooltip","wicketAjaxTooltip"));
}
Because you have extended from AbstractAjaxBehavior (AjaxEventBehavior extends AbstractAjaxBehavior), you should gain access to getComponent(), which will give you the component the behavior is attached to.
I override Behavior#onConfigure(Component component) wich is possible the most suitable way to add Behaviors or do some other stuff with the component belonging to the Behavior.
#Override
protected void onConfigure(Component component) {
super.onConfigure();
component().add(new AttributeAppender("data-tooltip","wicketAjaxTooltip"));
}

GWT 2.4 customized ListBox doesn't fire Change event

I have added some extra functionality to the standard GWT ListBox by extending it like so:
public class FeatureListBox extends ListBox
{
public FeatureListBox()
{
}
public FeatureListBox(boolean isMultipleSelect)
{
super(isMultipleSelect);
}
public FeatureListBox(Element element)
{
super(element);
}
}
Nothing fancy here. However, the Change event is not firing now, or at least the handler (attached per below) is not getting invoked.
FeatureListBox listBox = new FeatureListBox();
listBox.addChangeHandler(new ChangeHandler()
{
public void onChange(ChangeEvent event)
{
// Do something here...
}
});
Any ideas why?
Either remove the no-argument constructor from FeatureListBox or call super() inside it, otherwise the initialization in the superclasses won't happen, which would probably result in what you're seeing.
The problem was in the way I was using my custom list box. In my application I wrap GWT Widgets around existing DOM elements on the page using the static wrap() methods of their widget classes in which the widgets get marked as attached, making them fire events. I didn't do that with my custom list box class originally, so I ended up implementing a static wrap() method similar to the one of the regular ListBox widget and using it in my code. Everything works like a charm now.

How to hide suggestions in GWT SuggestBox?

I am using GWT 2.4. I have a Suggestbox and I have a requirement to hide the suggestion list under certain cases. The context is as below.
After user selects a suggestion from suggestion list, I am populating two other text box fields, with values corresponding to the selection. For example, suppose the suggestbox contains user-names, and user selects a user-name from suggestions, then other two fields, say user address and email are populated in two other text boxes. These two fields are read only now. Then user clicks on an 'Edit' button. Now the user can edit either user- name ( ie edit in suggestion box), user address and email. It doesn't make sense to show the suggestions again when the user is editing the user-name, since the user has already selected the user and decided to edit it. In a nutshell my SuggesBox should behave as a normal text box. I tried following code, (I know hideSuggestionList() is deprecated) but its not working.
display.getSuggestBox().hideSuggestionList();
Reading the javadoc for hideSuggestionList() it is said that, "Deprecated. use DefaultSuggestionDisplay.hideSuggestions() instead". I don't know how to use DefaultSuggestionDisplay, and I'm using SuggestBox with 'MultiWordSuggestOracle'.
Thanks for helping me out!!
What you can do is simply swap the SuggestionBox with a normal TextBox when the user clicks edit and back when edit is closed. Also because if you would hide the suggestions list, it still queried from the server. By swapping the widget you don't have to care about side effects. SuggestionBox itself uses also a TextBox and thus for the user it's not visible the widget has changed.
If you don't use your own SuggestionDisplay, then this should Just Work™:
((DefaultSuggestionDisplay) suggestBox.getSuggestionDisplay()).hideSuggestions();
Here is the Solution
My Entry Point Class
public class SuggestionEntryPoint implements EntryPoint {
#Override
public void onModuleLoad() {
SuggestBoxWidget suggestBoxWidget = new SuggestBoxWidget();
RootPanel rootPanel = RootPanel.get();
suggestBoxWidget.createOracle();
suggestBoxWidget.createWidgetAndShow(rootPanel);
rootPanel.add(suggestBoxWidget);
DOM.getElementById("loader").removeFromParent();
}
}
And here is my Widget
public class SuggestBoxWidget extends Composite {
private TextBox textSuggestBox = new TextBox();
private SuggestBox suggestBox = null;
DefaultSuggestionDisplay suggestionDisplay = new DefaultSuggestionDisplay();
MultiWordSuggestOracle suggestOracle = new MultiWordSuggestOracle();
private static SuggestBoxWidgetUiBinder uiBinder = GWT
.create(SuggestBoxWidgetUiBinder.class);
interface SuggestBoxWidgetUiBinder extends
UiBinder<Widget, SuggestBoxWidget> {
}
public SuggestBoxWidget() {
initWidget(uiBinder.createAndBindUi(this));
}
public void registerEvents(){
suggestBox.addKeyUpHandler(new KeyUpHandler() {
#Override
public void onKeyUp(KeyUpEvent event) {
if(suggestBox.getText().equalsIgnoreCase("1")){
suggestionDisplay.hideSuggestions();
}
}
});
}
public void createWidgetAndShow(HasWidgets container){
suggestBox = new SuggestBox(suggestOracle,textSuggestBox,suggestionDisplay);
container.clear();
container.add(suggestBox);
registerEvents();
}
public void createOracle(){
for(int i=1;i<=100;i++){
suggestOracle.add(i+"");
}
}
}
Actually you have to create a SuggestBox with 3 Parameters to the Constructor.

GWT TestCase: Simulating clicking a button on my page

I'm using GWT 2.4 with JUnit 4.8.1. When writing my class that extends GWTTestCase, I want to simulate clicking on a button on the page. Currently, in my onModuleLoad method, this button is only a local field ...
public void onModuleLoad() {
final Button submitButton = Button.wrap(Document.get().getElementById(SUBMIT_BUTTON_ID));
...
// Add a handler to send the name to the server
GetHtmlHandler handler = new GetHtmlHandler();
submitButton.addClickHandler(handler);
How do I simulate clicking on this button from the GWTTestCase? Do I have to expose this button as a public member accessor is there a more elegant way to access it? Here is what I have in my test case so far ...
public class GetHtmlTest extends GWTTestCase {
// Entry point class of the GWT application being tested.
private Productplus_gwt productPlusModule;
#Override
public String getModuleName() {
return "com.myco.clearing.productplus.Productplus_gwt";
}
#Before
public void prepareTests() {
productPlusModule = new Productplus_gwt();
productPlusModule.onModuleLoad();
} // setUp
#Test
public void testSuccessEvent() {
// TODO: Simulate clicking on button
} // testSuccessEvent
}
Thanks, - Dave
It can be as easy as buttonElement.click() (or ButtonElement.as(buttonWidget.getElement()).click(), or ButtonElement.as(Document.get().getElementById(SUBMIT_BUTTON_ID)).click())
But remember that a GWTTestCase doesn't run in your own HTML host page, but an empty one, so you'll first have to insert your button within the page before simulating your module's load.
gwt-test-utils seems to be the perfect framework to answer your need. Instead of inheriting from GWTTestCase, extend the gwt-test-utils GwtTest class and implement your click test with the Browser class, like shown in the getting starting guide :
#Test
public void checkClickOnSendMoreThan4chars() {
// Arrange
Browser.fillText(app.nameField, "World");
// Act
Browser.click(app.sendButton);
// Assert
assertTrue(app.dialogBox.isShowing());
assertEquals("", app.errorLabel.getText());
assertEquals("Hello, World!", app.serverResponseLabel.getHTML());
assertEquals("Remote Procedure Call", app.dialogBox.getText());
}
If you want to keep your button private, you'd be able to retrieve it by introspection. But my advice is to make you view's widgets package protected and to write your unit test in the same package so it could access them. It's more convinent and refactoring-friendly.
gwt-test-utils provide introspection convinence. For example, to retrieve the "dialogBox" field which could have been private, you could have do this :
DialogBox dialogBox = GwtReflectionUtils.getPrivateFieldValue(app, "dialogBox");
But note that using GwtReflectionUtils is not mandatory. gwt-test-utils allows you to use ANY java classes in GWT client side tests, without restriction :)
You can do it like this:
YourComposite view = new YourComposite();
RootPanel.get().add(view);
view.getSubmitButton.getElement().<ButtonElement>cast().click();

GWT adding a ClickHandler to a DOM element

lets say i have a custom widget which has a ClickHandler. Here's the example:
public class TestWidget extends Composite {
private static TestWidgetUiBinder uiBinder = GWT
.create(TestWidgetUiBinder.class);
interface TestWidgetUiBinder extends UiBinder<Widget, TestWidget> {
}
#UiField
Button button;
public TestWidget(String firstName) {
initWidget(uiBinder.createAndBindUi(this));
button.setText(firstName);
}
#UiHandler("button")
void onClick(ClickEvent e) {
Window.alert("Hello!");
}
}
When i try to add this Widget like this:
TestWidget testWidget = new TestWidget("myTestWidget");
RootPanel.get().add(testWidget);
everything is fine. If i click on my button i get the message i expect.
However if i add it like this:
TestWidget testWidget = new TestWidget("myTestWidget");
RootPanel.getBodyElement().appendChild(testWidget.getElement());
my click event is not being fired. I'm struggeling to understand why.
It would be nice if someone could explain this to me or link me to an resource where i can read this up. Finally i would like to know if it is possible to add the clickhandler afterwards i appended the child event and if that way is recommended. Thanks it advance for help.
kuku
When you call add(), Widget.onAttach() is called on the widget that is being added to the panel. onAttach does some work to register the widget to receive events. appendChild() simply attaches one DOM element to another and does nothing else. You should be able to get events working in the second case by doing this:
Element element = testWidget.getElement();
RootPanel.getBodyElement().appendChild(element);
DOM.sinkEvents(element,
Event.getTypeInt(ClickEvent.getType().getName())
| DOM.getEventsSunk(element);
However, I haven't tested this and I wouldn't recommend that you use it in a real application. Using add() is definitely preferred, using appendChild() in this way has no advantages and may lead to unexpected behaviour.