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    #1

    Question on AJAX Popup Windows

    Okie dokie, I tried to do the nice thing and first figure this out myself, then I searched Google (limited to alphasoftware.com), then I searched the forum and I found three useful pages related to what I'm looking to do. Thread: want AJAX popup from non-Grid, Wiki: Setting Pop-up Ajax Window Size, and Thread: Sizing a Popup Window .

    I'll get this out of the way now. Originally, I was using a Link with the Target set to be an AJAX Window. However, I am switching to buttons because I could not figure out how to get to the JavaScript events as described in the above links. I have no preference for whether I use links of buttons, but I think buttons will be a little easier. Now onto what I am trying to do.

    My goal is to have my AJAX popup window resize itself to fit its contents. In the onClick event of my button I have Action JavaScript that opens an AJAX Window. Everything works just fine with it, except the size. I have set the Window height and Window width properties to blank as their descriptions say doing so causes the window to resize automatically to the contents. Yet this is not happening (anyone know why?).

    So after reading the above pages, now I want to use the onShow event of my AJAX popup to figure out and set the size myself. Not being overly familiar with Alpha Five or AJAX I'm struggling here. Does anyone know how I can find the widest and lowest elements in my window? By widest and lowest I mean relative to the top-left of the window. Basically I am trying to find a way to figure out what the width and height of the window would be if it had automatically resized so that I can resize it myself.

    I sure hope that I described that well. Any guidance would be much appreciated.
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    Re: Question on AJAX Popup Windows

    I've been looking at this on and off today and, apart from the Window height and width not working when set to blank, I can't quite get there.

    The problem is that in order to resize the window we need to know what to resize it to based on what's in the window... and we don't know what's in the window until it's displayed.
    onShow fires too early and there isn't another event, that I can see, that will fire after the window is displayed.

    The following code gets the "table" size, which is what we need, but only after the window is rendered.

    Code:
    viewportwidth = document.getElementsByTagName('table')[0].clientWidth;
alert('on show ' + viewportwidth);
    When this code is executed from any of the events it returns the first table size from the calling window.

    When the code is executed from a button in the pop-up window it returns the table info from the pop-up - which is what we need. It's a chicken and egg thing.

    Any ideas?

    David

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      #3
      Re: Question on AJAX Popup Windows

      What are you putting in the popup an a5w page or a grid?
      Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
      Albert Einstein, (attributed)
      US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955)

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        #4
        Re: Question on AJAX Popup Windows

        An a5w page containing a grid.

        I've also tried putting the code from http://wiki.alphasoftware.com/Settin...dow+Size+V10.5 into the grid but realized that "this" in the code refers to the "owner" object. In the case of the popup using onShow will refer to the window but used in a grid will refer to the grid and so doesn't have the same methods or functions.

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          #5
          Re: Question on AJAX Popup Windows

          that's the problem, unless you have a specific reason for having the a5w then you should link directly to the grid, remove all size settings and it will display perfectly every time.
          Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
          Albert Einstein, (attributed)
          US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955)

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            #6
            Re: Question on AJAX Popup Windows

            Yikes... thanks Pete... that's was it. I have to say this is what drives me nuts sometimes about A5... it's just simply misleading at times. The attached says leaving the size settings blank will resize the grid. After I'd selected the Javascript Action to display a page I just went with that. I didn't realize I could have made the choice to select a grid, not a page.

            Excellent Pete... very much appreciated.
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              #7
              Re: Question on AJAX Popup Windows

              Sorry that I'm so late to come back to my own thread.

              Well, thank you guys a whole bunch! That really clears that up. The reason I had it open an a5w page in the popup is because I used the URL to specify a filter. Now I just added a Base Filter to the grid and it works great.

              You guys are a pack of life savers!

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                #8
                Re: Question on AJAX Popup Windows

                I am having the same problem - however I NEED to have the ajax pop-up containing an A5W page - reason being it contains several different related grids. The weird thing is - Google Chrome and Firefox open the ajax windows perfectly - IE8, IE9 open the ajax window the ENTIRE width of the screen and it looks very messy. Any ideas why ONLY IE gives this problem?

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                  #9
                  Re: Question on AJAX Popup Windows

                  Originally posted by eswindhauser View Post
                  I am having the same problem - however I NEED to have the ajax pop-up containing an A5W page - reason being it contains several different related grids. The weird thing is - Google Chrome and Firefox open the ajax windows perfectly - IE8, IE9 open the ajax window the ENTIRE width of the screen and it looks very messy. Any ideas why ONLY IE gives this problem?
                  Were you ever able to solve the problem with IE8 opening the ajax window the ENTIRE width of the screen?
                  This is happening with only one of my popup windows with IE8 only. I have been developing and testing with IE9, only to realize now at the end that the popup has a problem with IE8. All other browsers are behaving well.

                  Anybody else had and resolved this issue?

                  I'm on V11, but the whole popup stuff seem to have remained untouched from v10.

                  Thanks,
                  Richard
                  Richard
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                  Find the Good and Praise It
                  Alex Haley

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                    #10
                    Re: Question on AJAX Popup Windows

                    Originally posted by eswindhauser View Post
                    I am having the same problem - however I NEED to have the ajax pop-up containing an A5W page - reason being it contains several different related grids. The weird thing is - Google Chrome and Firefox open the ajax windows perfectly - IE8, IE9 open the ajax window the ENTIRE width of the screen and it looks very messy. Any ideas why ONLY IE gives this problem?
                    I don't know if this is the only solution, but search for a META tag or HTML that will force IE to run in "Compatibility Mode" for the page that has your popup. Fixes it for me.

                    Actually, before you try that, try changing your Doctype to:

                    <!DOCTYPE html>

                    I cannot remember if it was that or Compatibility Mode that fixed it.
                    Steve Wood
                    See my profile on IADN

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                      #11
                      Re: Question on AJAX Popup Windows

                      Put this in the first line of your a5w page.
                      <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.01 transitional//en" "http://www.w3.org/tr/html4/loose.dtd">
                      Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
                      Albert Einstein, (attributed)
                      US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955)

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                        #12
                        Re: Question on AJAX Popup Windows

                        Also read this thread. http://msgboard.alphasoftware.com/al...pe+html+public
                        Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
                        Albert Einstein, (attributed)
                        US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955)

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                          #13
                          Re: Question on AJAX Popup Windows

                          Hi Peter,
                          I want to open a specific grid in popup window from link or button in a5w page,

                          Please any help or helpful links or videos...
                          Thanks in advance :)
                          Best Regards,
                          Kamel Jazmati

                          [email protected]
                          Kamelj.com
                          @KamelZJ

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                            #14
                            Re: Question on AJAX Popup Windows

                            Originally posted by peteconway View Post
                            What are you putting in the popup an a5w page or a grid?
                            Hi Peter,
                            I want to open a specific grid in popup window from link or button in a5w page,

                            Please any help or helpful links or videos...
                            Thanks in advance :)
                            Best Regards,
                            Kamel Jazmati

                            [email protected]
                            Kamelj.com
                            @KamelZJ

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