On Jun 12, 2008, at 2:26 PM, Marius Dumitru Florea wrote:
Hi devs,
While working on the new GWT-based WYSIWYG editor, I find out that the default DialogBox from GWT moves very slow when dragged if it contains many HTML elements (like a table with 10 rows and 20 columns). In the current WYSIWYG editor dialog boxes are used for color picker, custom character, insert image / attachment / macro / table. Before I start porting these dialogs to GWT I'd like to ask you:
Do you agree with using dialog boxes for these features? * if so, do you think it's ok to optimize the way they are moved by showing only their border while dragging (win95-like)?
If you do so, what are you showing instead of the dialog content ? the content behind ? or a plain color ? I think the main use case (if not the only ?) for moving such dialogs is to see what's behind. In that case showing only the border and let the user see what's behind is good IMO.
Yes, I'd like to show only a dashed (maybe) border and, possibly, a background-color with some opacity level. This way I move only a div with its border, background-color and opacity and hide or leave in the same place the dialog box, while dragging.
hmm... so it means we're doing pretty low level stuff and that GWT is not offering much tools. I'm a bit worried that we're developing more than we should. This will mean lots of maintenance too. Isn't there any existing solutions for this? Thanks -Vincent PS: Please bear with me as I've never developed with GWT so I don't know what's available or not.