Popup window with caption and border, Not internal window.

[Former Member]

Hi, I'm a newbie in WebDynpro and this is my very first post in this forum, so I hope some one can help me!

I have a table with some items and with some LinkToAction in each row, with this I need to show a Popup and I was trying with <b>createModalWindow</b>

and with <b>createExternalWindow</b>.

I have problems with both, not to mention that the last one is deprecated right now.

With the first one, createModalWindow I reach the functionality that I need, but I don't like that kind of popup, reading some documentation, it's called an internal popup, that only can use the display portion of it's parent, so I can't use that solution, because the screen size of it's parent is small and the popup is bigger that the parent.

The second one, createExternalWindow, is that visually I need, but not functionally, because, it creates another session with another controller and I can't fire plugs to parent.

So, Is there any way to create a popup window, I mean a really popup, with caption and border in the same session with the same controller that can fire plugs to it's parent but with it own window, not using the parent window?

I'm using Developer Studio 7.0.07 and Net Weaver 2004 S, WebDynpro with Java.

Regards

Luis

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Unfortunately, the popup windows are a little bit stupid in NW 04 / NW 7.0, this will be much better in NW 7.1.

Nevertheless, you should be able to use IWDWindow.setSize() to control the size of the popup.

Armin

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

So nice to hear that. Hope the pop ups are minimisable and movable in CE 7.1. We would be moving to CE in quick time. Thank you for the info.

regards

LNV

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

They are maximizable, movable and resizable. Maybe someday even closeable

Armin

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Armin, thanks for your answer.

I Know that I can use setSize, but this always be in the space of it's parent, so, if the parent is a tiny list the popup appears inside that space and I have to scroll the little view to see all the content of the popup.

If it's the only way to make a popup, is there any solution or workarround to this problem, I mean to look like a normal popup not inside it's parent?

Thanks

Luis