Embedwithin on a dialogcontrol, possible ?

Targets Web
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Hi, I have used a lot of embedwithin on pages, but trying to do it on a dialog-control set to sheep, seems not to work… the x pos is set to page left and not dialog left…

any ideas?

2

This is a known bug. Modal dialogs report the page left and not the dialog left.

3

Aha, I did not know. Thanks

4

But, will i be able to see in Feedback, when it will be fixed ?

5

I’ll use palette and have it free floating inside the window. Thats ok for now.

6

It is an old issue. I am not even sure it gets any attention. I had to do some JavaScript voodoo to get RubberViewsWE to work.

<https://xojo.com/issue/33121>

This in the Shown even of the modal dialog will report the actual left and top into the programmer’s tools Console :

[code]Sub Shown() Handles Shown
dim js as string

js = js + “var dlg = document.getElementById('”+me.controlID+“_body’) ;”
js = js + “console.log(dlg.offsetLeft);”
js = js + “console.log(dlg.offsetTop);”

me.ExecuteJavaScript(js)
End Sub
[/code]

To get these values from JavaScript in Xojo, you can use WebSDK or the technique described here :
https://forum.xojo.com/22633-get-javascript-variables-back-from-htmlviewer-without-changing-/0

7

Thanks Michel. I totally understand the js code, but very lost on how to pull data back from javascript into Xojo.

However, I did solve my problem a different way. What I did was create a parent WebContainer control and placed in the desired area in my modal webdialog. My dynamic controls were then embedded within the parent webcontainer as opposed to the webdialog.

Thanks again!

8

Glad you solved your problem in another way. But to get values back, I linked to a method that you can use at the end of my post.