I am developing a web application using bokeh. My requirement is to open pop up window on button click. The pop up window should display a data table widget. Secondly, This pop up window is draggable. Since my application is web based so cannot use pyqt. Is there any way to achieve this?
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My web application is mimicing the UI of my desktop application, flow is as follows
Select Task in browser window
Change any Options and then start
Show Progress in same browser window, the progress bar goess back to server every 5 seconds checking progress.
When task has completed we show report in new tab
and go back to Select task Window,
this is done by running following Javascript in progress page
window.open('/start','_self'); window.open('/reporturl','_blank');
This works fine on my PC but when trying on Safari on OSX and on Android phone and iPad one of two things happen
The progress page becomes the start page but the report page is not opened in tab
The Progress page becomes the report page
My question is does opening window in new tab with _blank have all the problems of using popup windows. If so should I modify my prcoess so that at stage 3 it just displays report page, and then add a back button or navigable footer to the report to allow user to get back to start page ?
I can think of some options you could use instead of new tab.
Modal with Ajax
-- With jQuery it is posible to open modal
dialogs they can be populated with html (or other data) fetched with ajax (async). I am a big fan of these and use them all over my projects. Users will not be annoyed with pop-up warning messages, etc. Once the content is read (or whatever) the user can simply close the dialog. (If I had to make your app I would certainly implement this).
Besides the jQuery dialogs, other modal/dialog scripts are out there. Check out Bootstrap Modal if you like it modern.
Serve report as download
-- Depending on what the user can/will do with the report, it might be interesting to write the report page in a way that it sends back a .pdf file, or another type of file, as download. Loading the URL in a new tab will now always start a download. Triggering this from JS without user interaction might be a problem though (same as with pop-up / new tab). Adding a button to trigger the download on complete will solve this.
I know the question was about the use of tabs.. But try to avoid it. Browsers handle it all in their own way. And many users get confused when suddenly stuff is opening in tabs when they did not ask for it. In case of pop-ups, it is possible for users to turn them of or convert into opening a new tab from within the browser settings. If they have been fiddling with browser defaults, you'll have troubles of keeping the 'flow' of the app the same for all users (and cross browser).
I am looking for a way to launch my application in a browser with window frame or tabs or menu or toolbar, is there any way i could achieve that.
For instance i want to launch my application without the part marked in orange. (without tabs or possibility of creating a new tab) and the settings button beside the address bar
Update:
i am adding a image of what i am trying to accomplish...
Thanks in advance
The ShowDialog function in VB.NET allows a child window (form) to be opened in front of another without letting the user interact with the parent window until the child is closed.
To see what I'm referring to (in Windows), open up notepad, click help > about, and then click back on the main window. You'll notice that the dialog flashes and makes a noise. That happens with dialogs in a great many applications, and that is what I'm trying to achieve.
I can't seem to find any way to replicate this in Flex 4 (Air) applications. Any suggestions?
EDIT 2
Based on your comment, you then have to create a new window component(mxml component with the functionality and interface you want defined in it) and can then attach it to the click event of the link/button on the main window. And for the focus issue you can use setFocus from IFocusManager component
I want to build app that would allow me to open website, select some data from this website and send them to my server. I imagine that it works in this way:
Application id displayed in browser sidebar sidebar
I open certain website
Select address (City) on opened website
Click "City" button on sidebar
"City" value is copied from website to sidebar
Select address (Zip code) in browser
Click "Zip code" button on side bar
"Zip code" value is copied from website to sidebar
... (and so on)
Finally I click "submit" button on sidebar and data is send to server.
What will be better option for such use case? Chrome app or chrome extension? I am not sure if there is way to display sidebar using chrome extension. I also haven't seen in reference option to open certain url in chrome app. Any advises will be appreciated.
I guess an extension would be more appropriate as it is just one click away from the website you want to select some data from. The user interaction could be done in various ways:
select text and use the context menu (right mouse click) to activate the extension logic
activate extension via toolbar and add UI as a part of the website being viewed or in a separate window
You can pop up a window, but it will disappear when you click back on the website. You can manually create a "sidebar" by having your extension open a new window whose url is inside the extension and subsequently manually placing it alongside the browser window.
Unfortunately there is no sidebar feature for chrome extensions. That would be cool if there were, though.
I am developing a chrome extension. I am able to pass a message from background page to popup extension when a context menu is clicked if i open the popup page with "Inspect pop-up" selection. Because it stays open in this way.
But if I click the context menu when the popup page is not opened, no message received by it.
Do you have any suggestions to open popup automatically, make it stay open or send message to it when even if it is not active.
There is no way to pragmatically open a popup window. Popup windows are only active when the popup is open which is why you cant send messages to it when it is closed.
You could either queue messages in the background page and have them retrieved the next time the popup window is opened. Or depending on the functionality you might look into using HTML5 desktop notifications instead.
Instead of sending stuff to the popup, the popup should request what it needs when it is opened.
Because the popup is just an HTML page, it doesn't exist until it has been opened.
Basically, like abraham mentioned, you would store any information in the background, using localStorage or chrome.storage. When the popup opens, it should then use the chrome.extension.getBackgroundPage() function to get a reference to the background, which can provide access to the stored information.
If you are using localStorage or chrome.storage, you may be able to access it directly, without using the background, as storage is shared across the whole extension.