Creating a Generic Window

Question

If anyone is familiar with the Oracle Applications Suite you would have come across a feature in the help menu
called 'Record History'. This menu item opens a small window that shows information about the record you are
viewing. Question is how did they do it. I can't find a common window/canvas/item in all the appliction forms
that is used. So this appears to be some kind of generic built-in. The window behaves very much like a
combination of an alert and an editor. Specifically, the window can take a title 'About this Record', plus it is resizable
the text item resizes with the window. It also contains an OK button that dismisses the window. Apps will not allow
customization of the functionality nor give us any indication of how to implement this feature. So, has anyone seen
or developed something like this. Remember is can't be part of the form directly, but some bolt-on widget that gets
the job done?

Answer 1

Hi,
Bind your popup in managed bean like below.
<af:popup id="p6" contentDelivery="immediate"
            binding="#{EditDetails.infoAfterOverride}">
    <af:dialog id="d5" type="ok" closeIconVisible="false">
      <af:outputText value="outputText1" id="ot50"
                     inlineStyle="font-weight:bold;"
                     binding="#{EditDetails.reqOverrideMsg}"/>
    </af:dialog>
  </af:popup>
public String commandButtonTest(){
            reqOverrideMsg.setValue("The Document had been Posted");
            AdfFacesContext.getCurrentInstance().addPartialTarget(infoAfterOverride)
            RichPopup.PopupHints hints = new RichPopup.PopupHints();
            infoAfterOverride.show(hints);
Return null;
}~Abhijit
Edited by: Abhijit Dutta on Sep 8, 2011 5:59 PM