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Ryan Puddephatt

problem with xforms:trigger as xxforms:link

Hi all,

I have noticed a small problem with xforms:triggers appearing as links. Normally holding control and click will open the link in a new tab, but because the link could show a dialog or move to another page or change a field value the href points at the currently page. So when doing control click it reopens the same page, rather than doing what the trigger/link is intended to do.

Ideally IMO the ctrl click should only respond when the DOMActivate event contains an xforms:load, or (more easily) not at all.

Thanks

Ryan

Ryan Puddephatt
Software Engineer

Teleflex Group - IT UK
1 Michaelson Square
Livingston
West Lothian
Scotland
EH54 7DP

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Alessandro Vernet

Re: problem with xforms:trigger as xxforms:link

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Hi Ryan,

It would makes sense for the trigger to behave the way you describe.

One way to implement this is for the client to tell the server "the
user clicked on that button with ctrl pressed". Then when the server
runs the actions, if one of the actions loads a new page
(<xforms:send> running a submission replace="all" or <xforms:load>),
the server tells the client "go to this page in a new window".

This is not exactly trivial to implement, so for now I'll add a bug in
the tracker to keep track of this:

http://forge.objectweb.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=306559&group_id=168&atid=350207

Alex

On 1/3/07, Ryan Puddephatt <[hidden email]> wrote:

>
>
> Hi all,
> I have noticed a small problem with xforms:triggers appearing as links. Normally holding control and click will open the link in a new tab, but because the link could show a dialog or move to another page or change a field value the href points at the currently page. So when doing control click it reopens the same page, rather than doing what the trigger/link is intended to do.
>
> Ideally IMO the ctrl click should only respond when the DOMActivate event contains an xforms:load, or (more easily) not at all.
>
> Thanks
>
> Ryan
>
>
>
>
> Ryan Puddephatt
> Software Engineer
>
>
> Teleflex Group - IT UK
> 1 Michaelson Square
> Livingston
> West Lothian
> Scotland
> EH54 7DP
>
> e> [hidden email]
> t> +44(0)1506 407 110
> f> +44(0)1506 407 108
> w> www.teleflex.com
>
>
>

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