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Upgrading to qooxdoo 8.2 anytime soon? [message #127853]

Mon, 13 April 2009 19:29

Eclipse User

Any time frames on this?
Getting ticket 215015 resolved would be awesome.

Keep up the awesome work!
Howard

Re: Upgrading to qooxdoo 8.2 anytime soon? [message #127879 is a reply to message #127853]

Tue, 14 April 2009 04:40

Eclipse User

Howard,

> Any time frames on this?
> Getting ticket 215015 resolved would be awesome.

I'm sorry, but this is impossible before the 1.2 release. After this,
we'll have to decide how to proceed with qx. However, do to massive API
changes on the qx side, upgrading to 8.x will take several months.

And as we didn't get many requests for the TabFolder, it's rather low on
our priority list. Again, sorry.

> Keep up the awesome work!

Thanks! Ralf

Re: Upgrading to qooxdoo 8.2 anytime soon? [message #127901 is a reply to message #127879]

Tue, 14 April 2009 05:02

Eclipse User

To work around the missing TabFolder overflow, you could consider
using the CTabFolder that has this functionality.
Alternatively, implementing a TabFolder-like widget out of Buttons
and a custom layout shouldn't take too long either.

HTH
Rüdiger

Ralf Sternberg wrote:
> Howard,
>
>> Any time frames on this?
>> Getting ticket 215015 resolved would be awesome.
>
> I'm sorry, but this is impossible before the 1.2 release. After this,
> we'll have to decide how to proceed with qx. However, do to massive API
> changes on the qx side, upgrading to 8.x will take several months.
>
> And as we didn't get many requests for the TabFolder, it's rather low on
> our priority list. Again, sorry.
>
>> Keep up the awesome work!
>
> Thanks! Ralf

Re: Upgrading to qooxdoo 8.2 anytime soon? [message #127954 is a reply to message #127901]

Tue, 14 April 2009 13:44

Eclipse User

Yup, didn't think that was happening...thought I'd ask though. :)

Unfortunately CTabFolder allows changing the order of tabs, which is an
undesired behavior for my app. But maybe I can convince the PM on the
quick fix.

I may have to go with the custom tab built with buttons style...which is
what I would prefer to do but it'll probably take longer than I can
afford. Curious though, is there a way to lazy load/build the non-selected
tab instead of having to build them all at the same time?

Thanks for the suggestions.

Re: Upgrading to qooxdoo 8.2 anytime soon? [message #127977 is a reply to message #127954]

Tue, 14 April 2009 16:31

Eclipse User

Hi,

Howard wrote:
> Yup, didn't think that was happening...thought I'd ask though. :)
>
> Unfortunately CTabFolder allows changing the order of tabs, which is an
> undesired behavior for my app. But maybe I can convince the PM on the
> quick fix.

Did you try to set CTabFolder#setMRUVisible() -> false? In this mode,
the order of the items is not changed.

> I may have to go with the custom tab built with buttons style...which is
> what I would prefer to do but it'll probably take longer than I can
> afford. Curious though, is there a way to lazy load/build the
> non-selected tab instead of having to build them all at the same time?

You can create the item's contents lazily in a SelectionListener on the
CTabFolder. Actually, this is what we do in our ControlsDemo:

topFolder.addSelectionListener( new SelectionAdapter() {
public void widgetSelected( final SelectionEvent evt ) {
int index = topFolder.getSelectionIndex();
tabs[ index ].createContents();
}
} );

The createContents() method creates the item contents if they aren't yet
created.

Hope this helps,
Ralf

Re: Upgrading to qooxdoo 8.2 anytime soon? [message #128047 is a reply to message #127977]

Wed, 15 April 2009 12:42

Eclipse User

>> You can create the item's contents lazily in a SelectionListener on the
>> CTabFolder.

We even use this to lazily unload contents of unselected tabs to safe
quite a lot of memory on the serverside.

Re: Upgrading to qooxdoo 8.2 anytime soon? [message #128288 is a reply to message #128047]

Thu, 16 April 2009 13:34

Eclipse User

Duh, the selectionListener on the TabFolder, not the tabs!

Good stuff...I definitely need to look into this when I get the time. Is
the lazy unloading also part of the Controls Demo?

Re: Upgrading to qooxdoo 8.2 anytime soon? [message #128366 is a reply to message #128288]

Thu, 16 April 2009 16:28

Eclipse User

Howard wrote:
> Duh, the selectionListener on the TabFolder, not the tabs!
>
> Good stuff...I definitely need to look into this when I get the time.
> Is the lazy unloading also part of the Controls Demo?

No. The controls demo does not unload contents.

Ralf

Re: Upgrading to qooxdoo 8.2 anytime soon? [message #128575 is a reply to message #128288]

Mon, 20 April 2009 03:54

Eclipse User

>> Is the lazy unloading also part of the Controls Demo?

No, it's not.
But basically you are just disposing the content of the CTabItem.
(Control c=unselectedTabItem.getControl();
unselectedTabItem.setControl(null); c.dispose())

What makes this a bit more complicated (and application specific) is, that
you typically should safe the state of the shown widgets.
For instance we have vertical tabs in each view, and we save the selected
vertical tab (and sometimes even the selected rows of a table within the
selected vertical tab).
If we didn't do that, our users would be confused, as for them it would
look like changing contents.

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