Can we add a listener for mouse move events on the main document in GWT? I'm not sure how to do this and if whatever I do add will interfere with other parts of GWT (like drag and drop?). In javascript I do this:
window.onload = function() {
document.onmousemove = function(e) {
alert("the mouse was moved!");
};
}
I'm just not sure where to start, GWT got a bit confusing for me since the new stuff was introduce in 2.0 (I used to use 1.4),
Thanks
I'm not sure why you'd want to monitor the movement of the mouse in the whole window, but a quick and dirty solution would be to wrap everything in a FocusPanel and add a handler via addMouseMoveHandler(MouseMoveHandler handler) (check the other interfaces that FocusPanel implements - there's quite a lot of them :)). AFAICT, this shouldn't conflict with anything else (drag&drop is not part of GWT, BTW ;)) - unless you start to mess around with the event itself (like stop propagating it) or something.
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I have got several Composite and I would like to add an Handler to one of them which fire an event if the user open this composite. Is there any Handler for?
Thank you
A good/easy way to fire events is by the use of the GQuery library, which emulates JQuery in GWT code.
It allows you to do things like:
$(yourWidget).blur();
to fire a blur event on yourWidget, for example... if you don't mind adding a dependency to GQuery to your project, this is the way to go in my opinion.
You can even provide a Function which will be called after the event has fired, as in:
$(yourWidget).click(new Function() {
public boolean f(Event e) {
e.preventDefault();
return false;
}
}
I am not sure how you would do that in pure GWT, but it's obviously possible... you may want to see how GQuery does that.
http://code.google.com/p/gwtquery/
I know there are some questions out there about the GWT ScrollPanel and how it works, but allow me to explain the situation.
I'm working on a project to implement QoS on routers. I'm now at the developping stage of the project and I need to make a webinterface to add protocols such as ssh and http and give them their bandwidth.
To save memory usage and network traffic, I do not use GWT-EXT or Smart GWT. So to set the bandwidths I use a ScrollPanel with an empty SimplePanel in it (which is way too big), leaving only the scrollbar.
Now here's the problem:
I want each scrollbar for each added protocol to start at the bottom, not the top. I can get it working through the code if I manually move the scrollbar first, then any function works, like a scrollToBottom(), or a setScrollPosition(). If I want to move scrollbars through code before moving the scrollbar manually, however, I can't call a function on it.
(I would post a picture but I can't yet - new user)
Summary:
So if I add a protocol (using a button called btnAjouter), the two slidebars (One for guaranteed bandwidth and one for the maximum bandwidth) for each protocol start at the top. I want them to start at the bottom on the load of the widget.
Is there a way to do this?
Thanks in advance!
Glenn
Okay, my colleage found the solution. It's a rather dirty one, though.
The thing is, the functions only work when the element in question is attached to the DOM. I did do a check with a Window.alert() to see if it was attached, and it was. But the prolem was that the functions were called to early, for example on a buttonclick it would've worked. The creation and attachment of the elements all happens very fast, so the Javascript can't keep up, this is the solution:
Timer t1 = new Timer()
{
#Override
public void run()
{
s1.getScroll().scrollToBottom();
s2.getScroll().scrollToBottom();
}
};
t1.schedule(20);
Using a timer isn't the most clean solution around, but it works. s1 and s2 are my custom slidebars, getScroll() gets the ScrollPanel attached to it.
You can extend ScrollPanel and override the onLoad method. This method is called immediately after a widget becomes attached to the browser's document.
#Override
protected void onLoad() {
scrollToBottom();
}
Could you attach a handler to listen to the add event and inside that handler do something like this:
panel.getElement().setScrollTop(panel.getElement().getScrollHeight());
"panel" is the panel that you add your protocol to. It doesn't have to be a ScrollPanel. An HTMLPanel will work.
You can wrap this method in a command and pass it to Schedule.scheduleDeferred if it needs to be called after the browser event loop returns:
Schedule.scheduleDeferred(new Scheduler.ScheduledCommand(
public void execute() {
panel.getElement().setScrollTop(panel.getElement().getScrollHeight());
}
));
As we are facing GWT performance issues in a mobile app I peeked into Google Wave code since it is developed with GWT.
I thought that all the buttons there are widgets but if you look into generated HTML with firebug you see no onclick attribute set on clickable divs. I wonder how they achieve it having an element that issues click or mousedown events and seemingly neither being a widget nor injected with onclick attribute.
Being able to create such components would surely take me one step further to optimizing performance.
Thanks.
ps: wasnt google going to open source client code too. Have not been able to find it.
You don't have to put an onclick attribute on the HTML to make it have an onclick handler. This is a very simple example:
<div id="mydiv">Regular old div</div>
Then in script:
document.getElementById('mydiv').onclick = function() {
alert('hello!');
}
They wouldn't set the onclick property directly, it would have been set in the GWT code or via another Javascript library.
The GWT documentation shows how to create handlers within a GWT Java app:
public void anonClickHandlerExample() {
Button b = new Button("Click Me");
b.addClickHandler(new ClickHandler() {
public void onClick(ClickEvent event) {
// handle the click event
}
});
}
This will generate an HTML element and bind a click handler to it. However, in practice this has the same result as using document.getElementById('element').onclick() on an existing element in your page.
You can hook functions to the onclick event using JavaScript. Here's an example using jQuery:
$(document).ready(function(){
$("#div-id").click(function(){
/* Do something */
});
});
If you're interested in optimizing performance around this, you may need to investigate event delegation, depending on your situation.
A click event is generated for every DOM element within the Body. The event travels from the Body down to the element clicked (unless you are using Internet Explorer), hits the element clicked, and then bubbles back up. The event can be captured either through DOM element attributes, event handlers in the javascript, or attributes at any of the parent levels (the bubbling or capturing event triggers this).
I'd imagine they've just set it in a .js file.
Easily done with say jQuery with $(document).ready() for example.
There is a similar question to this for ExtJS but not for GXT.
I wish to simply add an onclick handler to a TreePanel in GXT. That is, I wish to perform an operation when a user clicks on a node in the tree. The showcase does not seem to cover this most basic usecase.
Thanks,
Premature cry for help it seems.
This seems to do the trick:
treePanel.addListener(Events.OnClick, new Listener<TreePanelEvent<ModelData>>() {
public void handleEvent(TreePanelEvent<ModelData> be) {
// do something here
};
});
I want to disable/enable user interaction (mouse click more specificly) on many widgets like hyperlink, button, etc which are contained in a composite (flextable)
there are more than one click handlers, and I don't want to bother with removing and adding listeners according to mode (interaction enabled/disabled)
Any ideas would be appriciated...
You forgot to mention the version of GWT. In GWT 2.0 you can use this code snippet or something similar. This feature allows you to cancel events before they are handed over to the target widget.
Event.addNativePreviewHandler(new Event.NativePreviewHandler() {
public void onPreviewNativeEvent(NativePreviewEvent pEvent) {
final Element target = pEvent.getNativeEvent().getEventTarget().cast();
// block all events targetted at the children of the composite.
if (DOM.isOrHasChild(getElement(), target)) {
pEvent.cancel();
}
}
});
There is a GlassPanel compoent in google-web-toolkit-incubator. I am almost sure it does what you need. Either way, it is a good idea to cover a disabled component whit one of these.