Re: [Wonder-disc] AjaxModalDialogOpener / AMD problem

[Chuck H. <ch...@gl...>]

On Nov 27, 2009, at 9:38 AM, Jean Pierre Malrieu wrote:

> Thanks, Ricardo, for clarifying this.
>
> JPM
>
> PS: I think I got confused because I thought that the modal dialog was
> like a page of its own, and that submitting a form within the dialog
> would not redraw the originating page. Pretty naive idea I suppose.

:-)

It does _look_ like a new page, but really it is just a div on that  
page that is normally hidden.  This can easily lead to confusion, as  
you have seen.  The rule of thumb that I use is "When using Ajax  
components, stick to ALL Ajax components".  There are exceptions, but  
that is a good rule to start from.


Chuck


> Le 27 nov. 09 à 15:28, Ricardo J. Parada a écrit :
>
>> The WOSubmitButton basically does the traditional submit where the
>> form values are submitted and the browser redraws the entire page
>> with the response from the application.
>>
>> The AjaxSubmitButton on the other hand goes through the
>> XMHttpRequest object which is behind all AJAX requests into the
>> application.  And the response is then use to replace the contents
>> of a section on the page, i.e. an update container.
>>
>> I guess the rule of thumb could be, if you don't want the whole page
>> redrawn you have to go through AJAX.  ;-)
>>
>>
>> On Nov 27, 2009, at 5:08 AM, Jean Pierre Malrieu wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Le 27 nov. 09 à 00:07, Chuck Hill a écrit :
>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I am not sure what is calling that, but the AMD onClose does not  
>>>> use
>>>> a /wo/ action.  Are you using a regular WOSubmitButton in the AMD
>>>> instead of an AjaxSubmitButton?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks Chuck, that was it. After changing the WOSubmitButton to an
>>> AjaxSubmitButton, I got it working.
>>> I need either to understand better what is going on, or follow more
>>> closely the examples (I guess option 2 will be my choice).
>>>
>>> JPM
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