GWT: onBack and onForward "history handlers" - html

Does GWT provide any way to define click handlers for when the user clicks the back/forward browser buttons? If so, how could I define such handlers? If not, why?

No, You cannot do that with GWT. However, you may use the History Token to manage the URL changes

take a look here GWT MVP
they explain very well how to implement a such behavior ( using History tokens). hope it helps.

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How to create popup windows in html

I want to know how the pop up windows integrated into websites are built. I am trying to create one for my websites but i don't really know it is created whether they are plugins or not. Any help as to how to go about it.
Below is an example of what i want to do.
You can use hotjar.com to put a feedback box in your page, there is a lot of services that provides this feature, but hotjar gets the job done
Beginner! To make a pop-up like the one you provided, you would need to write backend code (Node.JS, PHP, Python, etc.). But for just a simple info pop-up with a button that activates the pop-up refer to this jsfiddle I created:
https://jsfiddle.net/d706dyg7/1/
$("#whateverid").click(function(){
//whatever code
});
That mean when that element is clicked blah happens.
Hope that helps,
Ben A.K.A BlackSky
P.S. If you want a solution in pure javascript and not jQuery just let me know and I will edit my fiddle!
I know I'm like .. 10 years late. But for anyone still wondering I thought I could be of some help!
If you want to do this using ONLY html and css (using a framework in visual studio like ASP.NET) for example.. here's what I did:
First, I made sure I had multiple "divs" in my code. For me specifically, I had two main ones. The first one whose id="main", and another whose id="popup" with the 'visible' property initially set to 'false' for the popup div.
Then, on whichever event you're looking for (button click for example) you'll simply set main.Visible = false and popup.Visible = true, then you could have more buttons in your popup (yes, no, cancel, confirm, etc.) which do the exact same thing, but in reverse!
The most important thing to make sure of is that you have the 'runat="server"' property in your divs so that you can access them in your CS code
Hope this was helpful! :)
Your looking for something called a modal. Depending how you wrote your HTML there are different ways of approaching this issue.
If your wrote your website in Plain HTML you can use the following tutorial to create one
www.webdesignerdepot.com/2012/10/creating-a-modal-window-with-html5-and-css3/amp/
However if you wrote your website with a library such as Bootstrap they have built in pre made modules that you can attach to your cpde. These can Ben found in the library's documentation.

How to correctly implement hotkeys in a WinRT application?

I tried using Window's ButtonDown event as well as Grid's ButtonDown (all window elements are inside this grid). However, these events never seem to fire.
Where, logically, should the code for handling button down events (as to implement hotkeys) be in a WinRT application?
I thought someone recently blogged about this, but I can't find the post right now. You can check these articles though: MSDN link, link.
Basically you would handle Window.Current.CoreWindow.KeyDown/Up, store the current state of the modifier keys (Ctrl, Alt, Shift) and respond to combinations to handle them. Then you should also specify accessibility and help strings like these on your controls:
ToolTipService.ToolTip="Shortcut key: Ctrl+P"
AutomationProperties.AcceleratorKey="Control P"

Website button click - Perl WWW::Mechanize

I try to use the perl script to automate the interaction with a website.
I use module WWW::Mechanize to realize my design. But I cannot perform the button click in my perl script by using command as below.
$mech->click( $button [, $x, $y] )
$mech->click_button( ... )
It is because this button does not belongs to any form and without name, I can not call or locate this button in my perl script. How can I make it possible to click this button in my perl script like I interact with browser? Thank you.
<button class="button transactional" id="checkout-now"><span>Check Out Now</span></button>
If button does not belong to any form it should have onclick event defined, like #Bilzac and #hijack mentioned. In this case you are not able to reproduce browser's behavior because WWW::Mechanize does only html analysis.
Dealing with JavaScript events it's more easy to implement browser's network activity rather then implementing whole JavaScript events and DOM interaction.
Well sometimes all you need is $mech->post() because it's harder to find what going on with JavaScript when you click some element.
So you need to find what request is performed when you click this button (you may use Firefox HttpFox for this) and after that construct same request using WWW::Mechanize:
$mech->post($request_url, Content => {FORM_FIELDS...});
You can add onclick event on this button. like this:
<button onlick="alert('hello');">Click Me</button>
Clicking the button in a browser only runs a piece of JavaScript. You can't do that in WWW::Mechanize, because it has no JavaScript support.
What you could do, however, is find the JavaScript code that's being run when the button is clicked and write some Perl code to do the same thing. Unfortunately, it can sometimes be hard to find which JavaScript event handlers apply to an element. Even the otherwise excellent Firebug doesn't seem to have any simple way to list all event handlers associated with an element. (There does exist an Eventbug extension, but at a glance it doesn't seem to work very well.) The Visual Event bookmarklet might also be worth trying.
I am not 100% sure what you are asking for, but I am going to swing at it.
You do not need the button to be part of a form for any sort of interactivity. You can do this with just JavaScript & HTML.
$('#checkout-now').click( function() {
alert('Hello!');
//Do other stuff here, regarding the form! (Call Perl scripts etc.)
});
http://jsfiddle.net/fCdxR/1/
Quick example of how it works!
Hope this solves your problem.

using PopUpManager in a Flex 4.5 Mobile App

This is more of a best practices question rater than something technical.
I'm working on a mobile app using the Flex 4.5 SDK and I'm trying to figure out the best way to handle notification windows. In most cases these windows will be alerting the user to when something goes wrong. Ex: bad login, no data, cannot resolve server.
I'm using a singleton design pattern, I have a Requests class that handles server calls. Most popups will be originating from this class (IOErrorEvents from my loader being used to access the API). Since this class is a singleton and is used from all Views inside the app it is not aware of applications current view. I'm also not sure having this class keep track of the current view and having it push popups on top of it would be best practice.
I'm hoping that I can use PopUpManager to keep track of where to add popups and what popups are currently on the stage. Though all examples I've seen online about this show static Components being used in a views Declarations tag.
I'm really just looking for any examples or input on how you would solve this problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
I had the same problem, and sorted it by making an Alert popup component that you can call from anywhere in the code base, and it will pop up in the currently active window. It also has an always visible scrollbar text area which is handy
http://bbishop.org/blog/?p=502
It works for a view navigator application, but if your using a tabbed navigator application, you can add a call for that, or simply change the code to
mainTabbedNavigator = FlexGlobals.topLevelApplication.tabbedNavigator;
currentTab = mainTabbedNavigator.selectedNavigator as ViewNavigator;

How to Clear history in Adobe Air's HTML control

I am using Adobe AIR's html control in my desktop application to let users see web pages. I am using the html.historyBack() and html.historyNext() methods to allow moving back and forth. But I want to clear the history once a specific option is selected, say a click on a button, without restarting the application. I tested both versions of AIR, 1.5.2 and AIR 2.0 Beta but unable to find any way to do so.
Is there any way to fix this problem?
Looking forward to hear from you,
Alex Fisherr
I don't think you can direct modify the history object because it's read-only. The easiest way to clear your history is to create a new HtmlLoader and replace the existing HtmlLoader.
This new HtmlLoader will have no history as desired.
If all you want to do is set the enabled state of the back and forward buttons then have a start point int, which you can reset when needed. Then base the history.length on this.