Can you describe the layout of your page in a bit more detail? I'm imagining a form, and when you submit it, you want a 'saving' message to take the place of the form. Is that right? (This sounds like a hack of Zone to me.) Or is the message some kind of lightbox while the page behind changes completely? (That's a different kettle of fish entirely.)
The UI is a lot more like glue code, so while most simple things like displaying messages aren't that hard, being prepared to roll up your sleeves a bit and learn how to show/hide a few blocks of HTML in response to events is a good idea. Tapestry isn't really about doing fancy UI things while still pretending you're only writing server code. In terms of client-side code, I think of Tapestry as a bit like an IoC service for the page. Michael On 16 August 2012 21:04, George Ludwig <georgelud...@gmail.com> wrote: > Can anyone give me any pointers? All I need is to be able to enable/disable > a busy busy message based on what else is happening in my page. This is > such an obvious use case, I can't believe I'm the only one doing it. And > every time I look at the Tapestry docs I get nowhere. I don't understand > how the lifecycle or render cycle of this message can mesh with Tapestry's > render cycle. > > > On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 4:36 PM, George Ludwig <georgelud...@gmail.com > >wrote: > > > Christian, > > > > The thing is, I'm server-side guy being forced to do UI...I really don't > > know where to start on building such an object. Isn't there some > component > > already out there or must I re-invent the wheel? > > > > -George > > > > > > On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 2:31 PM, Christian Riedel < > cr.ml...@googlemail.com > > > wrote: > > > >> Hi George, > >> > >> ProgressiveDisplay's initial block may be used to display a "loading" > >> message / spinning icon. > >> But I wouldn't recommend this component to be used just as a feedback > >> mechanism. Build your own component that may listen to certain events > and > >> show/hide itself as needed. > >> > >> ProgressiveDisplay is rather useful if you have expensive server-side > >> stuff going on but don't want the user to wait 10 seconds until the page > >> can be loaded. The component will first show a placeholder and > immediately > >> send a separate request using XHR to the server to get the expensive > stuff. > >> > >> Best > >> Christian > >> > >> Am 16.08.2012 um 23:05 schrieb George Ludwig: > >> > >> > I want to use ProgressiveDisplay to display a message and spinner icon > >> when > >> > an operation is taking place. For example, when saving changes, the > >> message > >> > would be "Saving..." If the page was loading, the message would be > >> > "Loading...". > >> > > >> > Is this an appropriate use of ProgressiveDisplay, or is there a better > >> way? > >> > > >> > Second, when using "t:initial="block:..." what is the easiest way to > >> get > >> > the spinning icon in it? > >> > > >> > -George > >> > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org > >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tapestry.apache.org > >> > >> > > >
