Version 8.3.2
 —  Working with Pages  —

Example

The example that will be built in this section produces the following output:

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When selecting a customer on the left, the customer detail screen is displayed on the right:

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When the user selects another record on the left, the screen on the right is updated accordingly.

This document covers the following topics:


The Multi Frame Page Around

First let us have a look at the multi frame page itself. The layout definition is as follows:

<mfpage separation="rows" sizing="70,*">
    <mfhtmlframe target="HEADER" 
                 url="../HTMLBasedGUI/workplace/welcome.html" 
                 resizable="true" 
                 withborder="false" 
                 scrolling="false" 
                 framestyle="border: 1px #808080 solid">
    </mfhtmlframe>
    <mfframeset target="AROUND" 
                separation="cols" 
                sizing="200,*">
        <mfcisframe target="INNERLEFT" 
                   cisurl="/cisdemos/25_mfinnerleft.html" 
                   framestyle="border-right: 1px solid #808080; 
                   border-bottom: 1px solid #808080">
        </mfcisframe>
        <mfcisframe target="INNERRIGHT" 
                     cisurl="/HTMLBasedGUI/empty.html" 
                     framestyle="border: 1px solid #808080">
        </mfcisframe>
    </mfframeset>
</mfpage

The page is subdivided into three frames: "HEADER", "INNERLEFT" and "INNERRIGHT". Two of them are Application Designer frames, one is an HTML frame. Every frame is pointing to a certain page.

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The Left Frame

The INNERLEFT frame's page displays a text grid and lets the user select from the list of items. The layout definition is:

<page model="MFInnerLeftAdapter">
    <pagebody horizdist="false" takefullheight="true">
        <itr height="100%" fixlayout="true" width="100%">
            <textgrid2 griddataprop="customers" width="100%" height="100%" selectprop="selected" 
                       singleselect="true" hscroll="true" directselectmethod="onSelect" 
                       directselectevent="onclick">
                <column name="Id" property="id" width="100">
                </column>
                <column name="Name" property="name" width="400">
                </column>
            </textgrid2>
        </itr>
    </pagebody>
</page>

The adapter implementation is done in the following way:

import com.softwareag.cis.server.Adapter;
import com.softwareag.cis.server.ServerLog;
import com.softwareag.cis.server.util.TEXTGRIDCollection;

public class MFInnerLeftAdapter 
	extends Adapter
{
	// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
	// inner classes
	// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
	
	public class CustomerInfo
	{
            boolean m_selected;
            String m_id;
            String m_name;
            public String getId() { return m_id; }
            public String getName() { return m_name; }
            public boolean getSelected() { return m_selected; }
            public void setId(String string) { m_id = string; }
            public void setName(String string) { m_name = string; }
            public void setSelected(boolean b) { m_selected = b; }
	}
	// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
	// members
	// ------------------------------------------------------------------------

	TEXTGRIDCollection m_customers = new TEXTGRIDCollection();
	
	// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
	// property access
	// ------------------------------------------------------------------------

	public TEXTGRIDCollection getCustomers() { return m_customers; }
	
	// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
	// public methods
	// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
	
	public void init()
	{
		super.init();
		for (int i=0; i<40; i++)
		{
			CustomerInfo info = new CustomerInfo();
			ci.setId(""+i);
			ci.setName("Customer " + i);
			m_customers.add(ci);
		}
	}
	
	public void onSelect()
	{
		try
		{
			CustomerInfo info = (CustomerInfo)m_customers.findLastSelectedItem();
			// prepare adapter of right frame
			MFInnerRightAdapter mfira = 
                        (MFInnerRightAdapter)findAdapter(MFInnerRightAdapter.class);
			mfira.prepare(ci.getId());
			// preload adapter so that only one request is executed
			includeAdapterInResponse("../_DevelopersGuide/mfinnerright.html",false);
			// refersh target
			refreshTarget("INNERRIGHT");
		}
		catch (Throwable t) { ServerLog.appendException(t); }
	}
}

The class contains the following:

The "critical" lines of code are inside the onSelect() method. Inside the method

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The Right Frame

The right frame is loaded with /HTMLBasedGUI/empty.html first. With the first selection in the text grid, the detail page is opened inside the right frame. Afterwards, the detail page is refreshed to update its content.

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