How to "chain" modal dialogs in YUI 2? - dialog

I have a modal dialog box presented in Yahoo UI. The user selects a value from dialog "A", and then I want to present another modal dialog box to collect some more data in dialog "B".
I have been using the YAHOO.widget.Dialog successfully. The problem seems to be that you can't initiate dialog window "B" from the handler function of dialog "A". So, how can you programmatically launch a second dialog window after the user hits the "OK" button on the first ?
(I had tried to create an additional Listener for a field that is updated in dialog "A" to trigger dialog "B" but this doesn't work either.)
Thanks..

Check out the documentation: http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/container/dialog/#events. The following code should do the trick:
var firstDialog = new YAHOO.widget.Dialog('firstDialog', { postmethod: "manual" });
firstDialog.manualSubmitEvent.subscribe(function (type, args) {
var nextDialog = new YAHOO.widget.Dialog('nextDialog', { });
/* more configuration stuff... */
nextDialog.render();
nextDialog.show();
});
firstDialog.render();
firstDialog.show();
This handles when the form is to be submitted, which I think what you mean by selects a value, but if not let me know and I can give some help on that situation.

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What's the difference between endDialog() and endConversion() in Bot-Framework (node.js)?

I am confused with endDialog() and endConversion() when using bot-framework.
What's the difference between them?
If I don't invoke them, just using send()? What constraint will be?
When inside a dialog, you can invoke some other dialog. For e.g.
bot.dialog("/", [
function(session, data, next()){
session.send("Hi");
if(session.message.text === "hello"){
// starts a new dialog
session.beginDialog("helloDialog");
next();
} else {
next();
}
}, function(sesion, data){
session.send("end of root dialog");
}
]);
bot.dialog("helloDialog",[
function(session){
session.send("inside the hello dialog");
session.endDialog(); // explicitly ends the dialog
}
])
When user input is hello, output is
Hi
inside the hello dialog
end of root dialog
When user input is anything else, output is
Hi
end of root dialog
session.endDialog ends the current dialog, and resumes the parent dialog.
session.endConversation ends the conversation itself.
In Technical terms, when a dialog is called, the dialog moves into a stack called dialogStack. When another dialog is called from current dialog, that new dialog is placed at the top of dialogStack. When this new dialog completes its operation, this dialog is popped from the stack, and the last dialog resumes.
When session.endConversation is invoked, the dialog stack is emptied right away (this is a behavior am not fully sure though)

Multiple buttons in HeroCard

I'd like to have multiple buttons on HeroCard
and be able to press all buttons one after another
but when I press click button program jumps to next function in waterfall
and expects next action instead of button action again
what should I do in this case?
bot.dialog("/showCards", [
(session) => {
const msg = new Message(session)
.textFormat(TextFormat.xml)
.attachmentLayout(AttachmentLayout.carousel)
.attachments([{
title: "title",
url: "https://www.wikipedia.org/portal/wikipedia.org/assets/img/Wikipedia-logo-v2.png"
}].map(obj =>
new HeroCard(session)
.title(obj.title)
.images([
CardImage.create(session, obj.url)
.tap(CardAction.showImage(session, obj.url)),
])
.buttons([
CardAction.openUrl(session, obj.url),
CardAction.imBack(session, `click`, "Click"),
CardAction.imBack(session, `clack`, "Clack")
])
));
Prompts.choice(session, msg, ["click", "clack"]);
},
(session, results) => {
// todo use results.response.entity
}
]);
You could also use CardAction.dialogAction and link every button to a beginDialogAction.
let card = new builder.HeroCard(session)
.title(title)
.subtitle(subtitle)
.buttons([builder.CardAction.dialogAction(session, 'dialogAAction', 'dataYouNeedInDialogA', 'ButtonTitleA'), builder.CardAction.dialogAction(session, 'dialogBAction', 'dataYouNeedInDialogA', 'ButtonTitleB')]);
let msg = new builder.Message(session)
.attachments([card])
session.endDialog(msg);
// use one of these two to either end the dialog and start a new one or to stay in the current dialog and wait for user input
session.send(msg);
// don't forget to add the dialogs to your bot / library later in your code (outside your current dialog)
bot.dialog('dialogA', dialogA); // initialized somewhere in your code
bot.dialog('dialogB', dialogB);
bot.beginDialogAction('dialogAAction', 'dialogA');
bot.beginDialogAction('dialogBAction', 'dialogB', {
onSelectAction: (session, args, next) => {
// you might want to clear the dialogStack if the button is pressed. Otherwise, if the button is pressed multiple times, instances of dialogB are pilled up on the dialog stack.
session.clearDialogStack();
next();
}
});
In my opinion, this is the best way to achieve the behaviour you described so far. All buttons work whenever the user presses them, even if they scroll back in the conversation and press the same button again. The only trade-off is that you have to pass data to the new dialog and can not use dialogData throughout the whole flow. Nevertheless, I think it's worth it because ensures consistent UX throughout the usage of the bot.
Hope this helps. You can build click and clack dialogs, link them to actions and pass the data that you need. The user would be able to press click, clack, click and the bot would still work. :)
Use a switch-case in the ResumeAfter function, in the default case send the user to the previous function.

on(keyPress "<Enter>") in AS2 doesn't work

I have a flash movie I am making that has a search box and a search button. The button has this code:
on (release, keyPress "<Enter>") {
searchbox.execute();
/*the function above processes searches*/
}
Clicking on the button works just fine. Pressing Enter doesn't do a bean! Does anyone know why this is, and any ways I can work around it? I'd prefer not to use listeners if I can possibly avoid it at all.
Using on() is a deprecated AS1 practice, so maybe you should just stop using it. Thanks to the onKeyDown event handler of the MovieClip class, it is possible to use proper code to do it without listeners, so you don't have to worry about them. ;)
Anyway, on with the code. Type this into the timeline which contains the button:
//Enable focus for and set focus to your button
searchButton.focusEnabled = true;
Selection.setFocus(searchButton);
//The onRelease handler for the button
searchButton.onRelease = function(){
//You need this._parent this code belongs to the button
this._parent.searchbox.execute();
}
//The onKeyDown handler for the button
searchButton.onKeyDown = function(){
//Key.getCode() returns the key code of the last key press
//Key.ENTER is a constant equal to the key code of the enter key
if(Key.getCode() == Key.ENTER){
this._parent.searchbox.execute();
}
}

How to get parameters from a "dependent" dialog

In my XUL application, I open a dialog window, by this code:
var win = myWindow.openDialog("chrome://mywindow/content/mydialog.xul",
"Dialog creation",
"chrome, dialog, modal, resizable=yes",
params).focus();
And I access the information passed by user, by this code:
if (params.out){
dialogVariablesValues = params.out['inputValues'];
sameDialog = params.out['sameDialog'];
(...)
}
When the OK button in the dialog window is clicked, the window is closed, the if (params.out) becomes true and I can get the values. I don't have any problem with this approach. The problem is that I need to change my dialog window to be dependent. So I have changed the code to:
var win = myWindow.openDialog("chrome://mywindow/content/mydialog.xul",
"Dialog creation",
"chrome, dialog, dependent, resizable=yes",
params).focus();
But params.out is always null...
Does anyone know how I can get the values when the dependent dialog is closed?
With a dependent dialog the execution continues after the openDialog() call even though the dialog is still open. So you want your code to be "notified" when that dialog is closed. The easiest solution should be passing a callback in the params and changing the dialog to call your callback when it is closed. So the code opening the dialog would look like this:
params.callback = function(inputValues, sameDialog)
{
// Do something with the dialog result here
};
myWindow.openDialog(..., params).focus();
And the dialog would have code like this:
var inputValues = ...;
var sameDialog = ...;
window.addEventListener("unload", function()
{
// Dialog is being closed, call the callback
window.arguments.callback(inputValues, sameDialog);
}, false)

Getting the dijit for a typeAhead in XPages

I want to be able to add an onBlur/onkeypress/onChange events to all TypeAhead fields on the form rather than have a developer select every one in the Designer client. The only thing I cannot get a handle on is the onChange event.
When the user selects something in the TypeAhead the onChange event is triggered when adding the code directly to the event in the Domino Designer - so I should be able to replicate that capability with code.
If my typeAhead field is called inputText2 I thought I would be able to do the following
var widget = dojo.byId("#{id:inputText2}")
dojo.connect(widget, 'onChange', function (){
alert('1')
});
However this doesn't appear to work...
I tried lowercase onchange
var widget = dojo.byId("#{id:inputText2}")
dojo.connect(widget, 'onchange', function (){
alert('1')
});
no luck there either
I tried
var widget = dijit.byId("#{id:inputText2}");
but that failed to event select the element entirely
So what do I need to do to trigger the onchange event when selecting an option in the typeAhead?
I found a solution.....not ideal but it worked for the moment - not generic though, but a start
Copying the way XPages does it....add this to the page
function view__id1__id2__id31__id50_clientSide_onchange(thisEvent) {
alert('me')
}
and then
dojo.addOnLoad(function(){
XSP.addOnLoad(function() {
XSP.attachEvent("X1","view:_id1:_id2:_id31:inputText2", "onchange", view__id1__id2__id31__id50_clientSide_onchange, false, 2);
});
});
});
X1 must be unique but everything else can be calculated
Thanks to Serdar Basegmez

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