I have a simple VS2013 Lightswitch application that I need some help on.
There are two tables:
Materials
ID int
Product String
Containers
ID int
Name String
Inventory Double
Comments String
The relationship between Containers and Materials is a one(Materials)-to-infinite(Containers).
I created a custom Browse screen for Containers with a single Table element and some custom scripting for adding and saving the new containers, all of which is working fine.
My problem is that when a user clicks on the html table and starts to edit the items within, the tab key on the keyboard does not work as expected. Every time the keyboard tab is pressed, the first header cell of the HTML table is highlighted. Progress through the rest of the columns within the table does not happen. I did Google this and found this blog but it did not seem to effect anything.
Oddly enough, when I resize my IE screen to force the RWD, the tabbing works as expected.
Any thoughts on a remedy?
refer to this thread I asked myself on the MSDN Forums which solved this problem:
https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/8c0055c8-367b-407d-a0f4-a33ae81dcc0e/html-client-edit-multiple-lines-of-data-in-a-table?forum=lightswitch
and incase the URL breaks:
if you go to the msls-2.5.1.js file, and go to line 28565, change the code here which shoul start with:
switch (e.keyCode) {
and end with
break;
}
});
and change it to:
switch (e.keyCode) {
case $.mobile.keyCode.ENTER:
//if (header) {
// sortTableByColumn(table, header.cellIndex);
//} else {
// msls_ui_CollectionControl.selectFocusedItem(table);
//}
break;
//case $.mobile.keyCode.SPACE:
// if (header) {
// sortTableByColumn(table, header.cellIndex);
// } else {
// msls_ui_CollectionControl.toggleFocusedItem(table);
// }
// break;
case $.mobile.keyCode.TAB:
//Xpert360: tab in grid
//if (target.tagName.toLowerCase() != "input")
// updateSelectedHeader(table, table._headerRowElement[0]);
break;
}
});
this enables be to tab through a table view in Lightswitch HTML
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I have an old app where I have 5 tabs. Each tab have list of ads & there is details. Also each tab have respective add ad. Design for all 5 tabs is same except some changes, so I decided to use 1 screen only for all 5 tabs.
Now what I am doing is while add ad, I am checking which tab I am and based on tab bar index, I am showing hiding fields. Same is applicable for details screen also. Sample code is as shown below.
if (self.tabBarController.selectedIndex==0) {
field1.hidden = NO;
} else if (self.tabBarController.selectedIndex==1) {
field1.hidden = NO;
} else if (self.tabBarController.selectedIndex==2) {
field1.hidden = NO;
} else if (self.tabBarController.selectedIndex==3) {
field1.hidden = NO;
} else if (self.tabBarController.selectedIndex==4) {
field1.hidden = YES;
}
Now I have around 15 fields for each form so I write this code for all fields.
What I noticed that client change the tab bar position continuously so I was looking for efficient way of doing it.
Right now what I do is at all places manually change index positions by doing Search-Replace, however I dont like this.
I was looking for a way where instead of selectedIndex, I was looking for someconstant value that I will assign to tab item of tab bar, so my code will change as below
if (self.tabBarController.selectedIndex==adType_News) {
field1.hidden = NO;
} else if (self.tabBarController.selectedIndex==adType_Occasions) {
.
.
And so on...
This way, I only need to change in the storyboard and code level will not have any changes.
Is there way where I can achieve this?
Main Issue
As client ask to change tab bar completely, I need to make changes of selectedIndex changes at all places which I don't like and feel more in-efficient way. So I was looking for a way where I will make change in storyboard only and coding level there won't be any change.
The main issue for me is changing selectedIndex in all files which make more error.
I think I understand the question to mean that the code is full of number literals, referring to the selected index of the tabbar, and the business requirements about the ordering of items are shifting. Fix by changing the literals to something symbolic that can be controlled centrally:
// in a new file, indexes.h
#define INDEXA (0)
#define INDEXB (1)
#define INDEXC (2)
// wherever existing code refers to the tab selection
#import "indexes.h"
// in the code, for example if selectedIndex == 2, change to
if (self.tabBarController.selectedIndex==INDEXC) {
// ...
I have created a plugin,Where I have a multi page editor with two pages.
Page1- Source Code Editor.
Page2- For Manipulation.
My problem is if there is any compilation error in the code the second page must display another content like "Error".
Otherwise it will show my manipulation form.
For that I need to fill the composite with diffrent content each time the pageChanges. But it doesnt work.
How can achieve the scenario. While clicking the second page the content must be recreated or refreshed for the new content
public void createPage1(){
intializePage1Composite();
updatePage1Content(this.page1Compostie);
int index = addPage(this.page1Compostie);
setPageText(index, "Service Behaviors ");
}
public void updatePage1Content(Composite composite){
boolean error=getPageStatus();
if(!error){
/**
*Content of Normal Page
*/
}
/**
* setting the page to error
*/
else{
/**
*Content of Error Page
*/
}
}
protected void pageChange(int newPageIndex) {
super.pageChange(newPageIndex);
if (newPageIndex == 1) {
updatePage1Content(this.page1Compostie);
this.page1Compostie.redraw();
}
}
Any advice ?
To replace all the children of a composite you first call dispose() on each existing child control. Next add the new controls. Finally call
composite.layout(true, true);
on the parent composite to force it to update the layout.
If you just want to switch between two sets of controls you can use the GridData.exclude flag and Control.setVisible to include/exclude controls. Again call layout at the end.
Since Titanium doesn't allow you to manually change the hintText colour of a textfield, I have to set hintText manually. Because of this, I have to dynamically change the passwordMask setting on one of fields I'm using.
However, I'm getting weird behaviour and I can't tell if I'm doing something wrong, or if it's a bug in Titanium.
So, here's my markup:
<TextField id="password" onFocus="passwordFocusEvent" onReturn="passwordReturnEvent" onBlur="passwordBlurEvent" value="password"></TextField>
And some of my controller code:
function passwordFocusEvent(e) {
slideViewUp();
if (e.value === 'password') {
e.source.setPasswordMask(true);
e.source.value = '';
}
}
function passwordBlurEvent(e) {
if (!e.value) {
e.source.setPasswordMask(false);
e.source.value = 'password';
}
}
function passwordReturnEvent(e) {
slideViewDown();
passwordBlurEvent(e);
}
What happens is bizarre. When I focus on the password field, it remains plain text. I enter some text, then click off to another field, stays as plain text.
I click back to the password field, it's STILL plain text.
Now here's the weirdness. Up to this point, I would just assume it's not working. However, when I click off this second time, the passwordMask is set.
Major WTF.
I even tried targeting the field directly using $.password.passwordMask = true; but same thing.
Unfortunately, you cant do this. According to the docs on Ti.UI.TextField in the fine print;
Note: on iOS, passwordMask must be specified when this text field is created.
Its not all bad news though, there are a couple ways you can approach this, one option is to make the password mask yourself, by listening to the change event:
var theStoredPassword = '';
$.password.addEventListener('change', function(e) {
var newpass = e.source.value;
if(newpass.length < theStoredPassword.length) {
// Character deleted from end
theStoredPassword = theStoredPassword.substring(0, theStoredPassword.length-1);
} else {
// Character added to end
theStoredPassword += newpass.substring(newpass.length-1);
}
// Mask the text with unicode ● BLACK CIRCLE, 25CF
$.password.value = new Array(newpass.length + 1).join('●');
});
Another option, would be to have two text fields and swap them out whenever the user focuses the password field, the top one would have the custom hinttext, the bottom one would be passwordMasked. In fact thats probably way easier than what I just coded up. :-)
how do I find out if my custom widget has focus in Dojo?
i have dojo editor i wnat to know if the editor has already focus or not?
you can use the module dijit/focus to find out the focus
FROM DOJO DOCS
Tracking active widgets
At any point in time there is a set of (for lack of a better word)
“active” or “focused” widgets, meaning the currently focused widget
and that widget’s ancestors. “Ancestor” can mean either DOM ancestor
(ex: TextBox –> Form), or a logical parent-child relationship (ex:
TooltipDialog –> DropDownButton).
For example, if focus is on a TextBox inside a TabContainer inside a
TooltipDialog triggered by a DropDownButton, the stack would be
TextBox –> ContentPane –> TabContainer –> TooltipDialog –>
DropDownButton.
The activeStack[] parameter indicates this set of widgets, and an app
can monitor changes to activeStack[] by:
require([ "dijit/focus" ], function(focusUtil){
focusUtil.watch("activeStack", function(name, oldValue, newValue){
console.log("Focused widget + ancestors: ", newValue.join(", "));
});
});
the question in title has a different answer than the one in the descriptions.
there are two ways achieving the question in the title, by using dojo's focusUtil ("dijit/focus"). both ways give you something that you could find the widget using it and the dijit's registry ("dijit/registry").
focusUtil.curNode: gives you the DOM Node that currently has the focus. the function below, you could get the widget reference.
function getWidgetByNode(node){
var result;
while (!result && node){
result = registry.byNode(node);
if (node.parentElement)
node = node.parentElement;
else
node = null;
}
return result;
}
var focusedWidget = getWidgetByNode(focusUtil.curNode)
focusUtil.activeStack: gives you an array of the widgets (parent to child) that has the focus. so the last item in the array is the direct widget which has the focus. index values are widget ids, so you should get the widget by the following code
var focusedWidgetId = focusUtil.activeStack[focusUtil.activeStack.length-1];
var focusedWidget = registry.byId(focusedWidgetId);
now if you want to know if the currently focused widget is some specific one, it depends on what you have in hands from that specific widget:
widget itself: like the return values of above samples. now you have to compare if these are the same thing. you can not compare two widget objects using the == operator. you could compare their ids like this:
myWidget.id == focusedWidget.id
widget's id: this way you just easily get the id of the current node from focusUtil and compare it with the id you have liek this:
myWidgetId == focusedWidgetId
references:
http://dojotoolkit.org/reference-guide/1.9/dijit/focus.html
http://dojotoolkit.org/reference-guide/1.9/dijit/registry.html
require([ "dijit/focus" ], function(focusUtil){
var activeElement = focusUtil.curNode; // returns null if there is no focused element
});
check blow url here you can see some examples
http://dojotoolkit.org/reference-guide/1.8/dijit/focus.html#dijit-focus
a) For dojo 1.6: call dijit.getFocus(). This will return an object containing the currently focused dom node, among other things (selected text, etc.). To get the corresponding widget, simply do:
var activeElement = dijit.getEnclosingWidget(dijit.getFocus().node);
This is the full reference for dijit.getFocus(), from the source code:
// summary:
// Called as getFocus(), this returns an Object showing the current focus
// and selected text.
//
// Called as getFocus(widget), where widget is a (widget representing) a button
// that was just pressed, it returns where focus was before that button
// was pressed. (Pressing the button may have either shifted focus to the button,
// or removed focus altogether.) In this case the selected text is not returned,
// since it can't be accurately determined.
//
// menu: dijit._Widget or {domNode: DomNode} structure
// The button that was just pressed. If focus has disappeared or moved
// to this button, returns the previous focus. In this case the bookmark
// information is already lost, and null is returned.
//
// openedForWindow:
// iframe in which menu was opened
//
// returns:
// A handle to restore focus/selection, to be passed to `dijit.focus`.
b) For dojo 1.7 and up, use dijit/focus:
require([ "dijit/focus" ], function(focusUtil) {
var activeElement = focusUtil.curNode; // returns null if there is no focused element
});
I'm trying to speed up my windows phone 7 page load times. I have a 'static' page that has a dynamically created in a Panorama control - static meaning that the content never changes.
On the first load I look at my config file, create the individual PanoramaItem controls and add them to the main Panorama control. I'm trying to keep a List in a static place so that the initial creation would only happen once and I could just add a fully rendered version to my Panorama control when the page was rendered.
Works fine on first load, but when I try to add the cached PanoramaItems to the Panorama control I get the message "Element is already the child of another element". This makes sense since I already added before. But I can see a way to disconnect the PanoramaItems with the first Panorama control...
I could be going about the control caching thing all wrong as well... Let me know if there's another way to do this.
You can use Panorama.Items.Remove(pivotItem) for this
As an example
With the following page fields
PanoramaItem pi;
bool blahShown = false;
On the press of this button, the control is first instantiated and displayed and on subsequent presses removed and readded without instantiation.
private void button1_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
if (pi == null) {
pi = new PanoramaItem();
pi.Header = "blah";
}
if (blahShown) {
Pano.Items.Remove(pi);
blahShown = false;
} else {
Pano.Items.Add(pi);
blahShown = true;
}
}