what happened to dojo.widget.FloatingPane?

Submitted by cpill on Fri, 04/25/2008 - 15:05.

I'm after a Floating window type object that I can create progammaticly from a button click that is NON-BLOCKING. Searching the site it seems the dijit.dialog is not what I'm after as it is blocking and the old dojo.widget.FloatingPane is what I want but I have had a sniff around and can't find it anymore. Is it not in Dijit or can I just modify dijit.Dialog to behave how I like?

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there's dijit.Dialog

Submitted by dante on Fri, 04/25/2008 - 20:26.

there's dijit.Dialog modification possibility, there is also a dojox.layout.FloatingPane, but it has some bugs.

Whats the 'dijit.Dialog'

Submitted by cpill on Fri, 04/25/2008 - 21:20.

Whats the 'dijit.Dialog' possibility? Instantiate one and then turn off the window locking functionality before activation it? Would be nice if the Dialog object inherited from a more general FloatingPane thing and just did the window locking stuff. Could it be separated/generalized?

I've had a look at the

Submitted by cpill on Sat, 04/26/2008 - 07:00.

I've had a look at the dijit.Dialog and I think if I can inherit the class and then override the '_setup' function defined there which is where the dijit.DialogUnderlay gets defined then I can bypass it altogether. I guess I would have to leave a property with the same name in there incase its referenced elsewhere in the object.

I also looked at the dojox.layout.FloatingPane option but it seems to be part of a bigger desktop type thing and has to integrate with a Dock, which is again a very specific use case.

There seems to be common functionality here perhaps pooling efforts and sharing/reusing code would be a good approach?

I've made two Dialog

Submitted by dante on Sat, 04/26/2008 - 09:56.

I've made two Dialog subclasses. I meant to respond to your thread yesterday, but one of them wasn't in the nightly yet:

The HTML version:
http://archive.dojotoolkit.org/nightly/dojotoolkit/dojox/widget/tests/te...

and the other
http://archive.dojotoolkit.org/nightly/dojotoolkit/dojox/image/tests/tes...

both would be a starting point on working with a Dialog subclass. dijit.Dialog doesn't give you many public things to work with.

Hey, They are both quite

Submitted by cpill on Sat, 04/26/2008 - 19:15.

Hey, They are both quite slick! I started to look at other JS Libs to see whats around but none seem as slick as Dojo. Thanks for getting back to me :)