Applet in a modal window with borderlayout

asked 2013-02-12 16:45:57 +0800

ebourgeois
0 ● 1

updated 2013-02-20 17:32:17 +0800

Hello All, Here is my problem. I have two windows, the mainWindow and the modalWindow. In the mainWindow there is an applet loaded. In the modalWindow there is also an applet, and I would like to use a borderlayout for the modal window’s layout. However, when the applet in the modal window is inside a borderlayout it doesn’t show up on screen. If I remove the borderlayout it works fine. I am not sure if this is a bug with the borderlayout or not, but I wanted to check if anyone else had this issue and if there was something I wasn't doing right?

Here is the code zul for the "mainWindow":

<window title="Main Window" border="normal" height="100%" width="100%" apply="org.zkoss.bind.BindComposer" mode="embedded" id="mainWindow" viewmodel="@id('vm') @init('dualapplet.IndexViewModel')">
<borderlayout>
    <north>
        <hbox>
            <label value="You are using: ${desktop.webApp.version}"/>
            <button id="modal" onclick="@command('doModal')">Modal No Border Layout</button>
            <button id="modalBL" onclick="@command('doModalBorderLayout')">Modal with Border Layout</button>
        </hbox>
    </north>
    
        <applet id="applet1" code="main.java.dualapplet.AppletOne" codebase="/resources" archive="dualapplet-jar-with-dependencies.jar" height="100%" width="100%" autohide="true"></applet>
    
    </borderlayout>
</window>

Here is the zul for the modal window:

<window title="Modal Window" border="normal" width="880px" height="490px" closable="true">
    <borderlayout apply="org.zkoss.bind.BindComposer" viewmodel="@id('vm') @init('dualapplet.ModalViewModel')">
        <north>
            <hbox>
                <label value="You are Modal with a BorderLayout"/>
            </hbox>
        </north>
        
            <applet id="applet2" code="main.java.dualapplet.AppletTwo" codebase="/resources" width="100%" height="100%" archive="dualapplet-jar-with-dependencies.jar"></applet>
        
    </borderlayout>
</window>

Thanks, Etienne

Here are some more details, in the hope that someone somewhere has a lightbulb moment!!! :)

Instead of calling doModal() I tried doEmbedded(), and the applet inside the window being opened didn't show up. When I open the "modal" zul page directly in the browser (i.e. by typing the page address in the browser's address bar) then it works fine.

This is the code I use to opened the window.

Window window = (Window) Executions.createComponents("modalWindow.zul", null, null);
try {
   window.doPopup();
} catch (SuspendNotAllowedException e) {
   Messagebox.show("Error: " + e.getMessage());
   throw new RuntimeException(e);
}

But still when not using a border layout, the applet shows up fine. It is strange.