I'm working on a website with different pages, but all loaded once, so no rest calls anymore, except for ajax fetching data, not for new pages.
I'm not that familiour with dojo, so I guess that this approach is good (please correct me if I'm wrong):
Make a menu and a stackContainer containing each page as a contentPane. Since I don't want to put all my code and layout in index.html, I decided to create a custom widget for every page. On one page, I want to put a datagrid, so my customWidget has a declarative container for a datagrid, which is filled up with data by an ajax-call.
Problem is: my datagrid is created, but not visible when I go to that contentPane of my stackContainer.
<div id="menu" data-dojo-type="dijit/Menu">
<div id="first_page_menu" data-dojo-type="dijit/MenuItem">First page</div>
<div id="second_page_menu" data-dojo-type="dijit/MenuItem">Second page</div>
</div>
<div data-dojo-type="dijit/layout/StackContainer" id="stackContainer">
<div data-dojo-type="dijit/layout/ContentPane" title="first page" id="first_page_cp">
content
</div>
<div data-dojo-type="dijit/layout/ContentPane" title="second page" id="second_page_cp">
<div data-dojo-type='myWidget/pageWithDatagrid'></div>
</div>
</div>
<script>
require([
"dojo/dom",
"dijit/registry",
"dijit/Menu",
"dijit/MenuItem",
"dojo/parser",
"dojo/ready",
"dijit/form/Button",
"dijit/form/TextBox",
"myWidget/pageWithDatagrid",
"dijit/form/DateTextBox", "dojo/date/locale", "dijit/layout/StackContainer", "dijit/layout/StackController", "dijit/layout/ContentPane"
], function(dom, registry, Menu, MenuItem, parser, ready, Button, TextBox, pageWithDatagrid){
var showPage = function(event){
var cpId = event.target.id.replace('menu_text','cp');
var stackContainer = registry.byId('stackContainer');
stackContainer.selectChild(cpId);
};
// Register click on menu to show corresponding page in stackcontainer
var registerMenuHandlers = function(){
var stackContainer = registry.byId('stackContainer');
dojo.forEach(stackContainer.getChildren(), function(menu){
registry.byId(menu.id.replace('contentpane','menu')).on('click', showPage);
});
};
parser.parse();
ready(function(){
registerMenuHandlers();
});
});
This is my pageWithDatagrid.js:
define([
"dojo/_base/declare",
"dijit/_WidgetBase",
"dijit/_TemplatedMixin",
"dijit/_OnDijitClickMixin",
"dijit/_WidgetsInTemplateMixin",
"dojox/grid/DataGrid",
"dojo/store/Memory",
"dojo/data/ObjectStore",
"dijit/form/Button",
"dijit/form/TextBox",
"dijit/form/DateTextBox", "dojo/date/locale"
], function(declare, _WidgetBase, _TemplatedMixin, _OnDijitClickMixin, _WidgetsInTemplateMixin, template, DataGrid, Memory, ObjectStore) {
return declare([_WidgetBase, _TemplatedMixin, _WidgetsInTemplateMixin, _OnDijitClickMixin], {
templateString: "<div class='${baseClass}'><div id='the_grid' data-dojo-attach-point='theGrid'/></div>",
startup: function(){
var target = this.theGrid;
dwrAjaxDao.all(function(result){
var dataStore = new ObjectStore({ objectStore:new Memory({ data: result }) });
var grid = new DataGrid({
store: dataStore,
items:result,
structure: [
{name:"ID", field:"id", width:"20%"},
{name:"Name", field:"name", width:"80%"}
]
}, target); // using 'the_grid' also does not work
grid.startup();
});
}
});
}
);
I renamed and skipped parts of my code so it can be that I removed too much of the code.
Problem is: when clicking on the menuItem 'second page', I don't see my datagrid. Although, it's present in the dom, but not visible. If it's done on the first page, which is visible at start up, it works.
General questions: - is this the way to use dojo for this purpose? (using widgets to represent different pages) - Is there a way to create the widget when you select a child of the stackContainer? That way, I could first show the page, then make my datagrid.