Modal dialog does not stop actions

Hi,

I have a problem with xxforms:dialog control in modal mode. Even if I
add attribute "level" with value "modal", displaying dialog using action
xxforms:show, does not stop execution of other actions following
xxforms:show. Is this expected behavior? And is there any way to pause
execution of these actions or should I look for another workaround?

Example of this problem, is attached to this message. Message box "To be
continued..." should not appear until user presses "Hide dialog" button,
that is right after xxforms:hide action is executed.


Thanks,

Jurgis


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Jurgis,


The reason your message appears when the dialog is opened is because it
is in the DOMActivate action for the trigger to open the dialog .... If
you would like it to only show after the dialog has closed then you
would need to move it to the other trigger .... Like this ...


<xforms:trigger>
        <xforms:label>Hide dialog</xforms:label>
        <xforms:action ev:event="DOMActivate">
                <xxforms:hide dialog="myDialog"/>
                <xforms:message level="modal" value="'To be continued...'" />
        </xforms:action>
</xforms:trigger>


As far as I know having a modal dialog does not stop things from
happening .... It just forces the dialog to stay focused and the other
form elements to stay out of focus.


Hope this helps.


Steve

 
 
 
 
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jurģis Lukss [mailto:[hidden email]]
Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2007 12:12 PM
To: Orbeon Maillist
Subject: [ops-users] Modal dialog does not stop actions

Hi,

I have a problem with xxforms:dialog control in modal mode. Even if I
add attribute "level" with value "modal", displaying dialog using action

xxforms:show, does not stop execution of other actions following
xxforms:show. Is this expected behavior? And is there any way to pause
execution of these actions or should I look for another workaround?

Example of this problem, is attached to this message. Message box "To be

continued..." should not appear until user presses "Hide dialog" button,

that is right after xxforms:hide action is executed.


Thanks,

Jurgis





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Thanks Steve, but unfortunately your solution won't help in my
situation. I need to be able to pause execution of other actions right
after xxforms:show action, and wait until dialog is closed, because
dialog has to fill in some important instance data that those other
actions, that follow xxforms:show, will use. And I cannot transfer these
actions to dialog's "Hide dialog" trigger, because this dialog will be
common to many different action sequences and I don't want to put all
that code in this dialog, as that would make code hard to maintain.

I just want to know, if xxfroms:show action will ever stop execution of
other actions, like xforms:send waits for a response and only then
executes following actions? Is it there a plan to implement this?

Thinking of it more.. I think it can't be easily done in Orbeon, because
every xxforms:dialog is just a div with xforms content and lightbox like
features, and it has to receive and act on every xforms event.. so it
cannot stop all xforms actions. And after xxforms:show action, dialog
would have to remember from where it was called an where it should
resume execution after xxforms:hide action. Or something like that...

Steve Lenhart wrote: --
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Jurģis Lukss wrote: At this moment, the dialog does not stop actions. I can see how this
would be desirable though.

This said, in some cases you would still like xxforms:show to behave
asynchronously. So this may have to be an option.

> Thinking of it more.. I think it can't be easily done in Orbeon, because
> every xxforms:dialog is just a div with xforms content and lightbox like
> features, and it has to receive and act on every xforms event.. so it
> cannot stop all xforms actions. And after xxforms:show action, dialog
> would have to remember from where it was called an where it should
> resume execution after xxforms:hide action. Or something like that...

You are right, this would require the server to save the current
execution context for actions, and be able to resume later. This is not
impossible to do at all, but it would be quite a lot of work to
implement so don't expect it too soon unless somebody sponsors the
feature or implements it...

-Erik

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