How to open a single WD Component in a popup window?

Question

Hi,
I want to open a WD component in a popup window but don't know how. I have searched this forum without a result.
The following situation:
DC1 (main DC) with a button to open the popup
DC2 (popup DC)
How can I open DC2 in a popup window without destroying DC1 in a way like
if (!DC1.hasActiveComponent()) {
mainR_Usage.createComponent("my.comp.DC2","my.comp/comp~DC2~wd");
and of course how can I destroy the DC2-popup from DC1?
The general problem is not to open a popup window inside DC1. The problem is to open DC2 as a popup!
Thanks ahead

Answer 1

Hi Bernd,
You can try this:
1.Create a context attribute of the type IWDWindow in your view/Component Controller of DC2, say 'PopupWindow'
2.Create a method in your DC2, say
openPopup()
IWDWindowInfo winInfo = (IWDWindowInfo)wdComponentAPI.getComponentInfo().findInWindows("DC2Window");      
       IWDWindow popup= (IWDWindow)wdComponentAPI.getWindowManager().createModalWindow(winInfo);      
       wdContext.currentPopupElement().setPopupAttribute(popup);      
       popup.setTitle("Hello, this is DC2");
       popup.setWindowSize(600,500);
       popup.setWindowPosition(100,100);
       popup.show();
                       +// Save WindowIsnstance in Context
     wdContext.currentContextElement().setPopUpWindow(window);+
3.Expose this method in your Interface controller so that it is available to be called by DC1
4.in your DC1 you can call this method
      if((!DC1.hasActiveComponent())
     wdThis.wdGetDC2ComponentUsage().createComponent();
     wdThis.wdGetDC2Interface().openPopup();
5.This should open the popup window from DC2.
6. You can have a close button or any other event on the view contained in this window itself. On click of this button you can retrive the window instance stored in the context and destroy it.
e.g we have an action assigned to a Close button. this will be in the view from the window you are trying to open as a popup.
onActionCloseWindow()
         IWDWindow  window = wdContext.currentContextElement().getPopUpWindow();
         window.destroyInstance();
this should close yourr popup window.
Regards,
Ajay
Edited by: Ajay Patil on Jul 6, 2010 10:27 PM