Widget Mixin
Description
Interface for jQuery UI widgets. Generally subclassed to create a specific type of widget. See slider.
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| Name | Required | Java Type | Default Prefix | Default Value | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| options | false | JSONObject | literal | none | Arguments used to contruct the widget. Defaults may be supplied thru the WidgetParms service. |
| script | false | String | literal | none | Experimental! Allows passing javascript functions (or anything) to widgets. This option will contruct a javascript url for the request and use a script tag to fetch it. The gets around JSONObject datatype limitations but adds complications in load balanced/high volume environments. |
| name | false | String | literal | this.getClass().getSimpleName().toLowerCase() | Name of the jQuery widget. Typically supplied by subclassing widget to a jQuery widget name. |
Create a new mixin with just the Widget Class
You can use a jQuery Widget, which is not available as a mixin in your project, by using
the Widget class and its name parameter. Tapestry-jQuery
will use this value for the name of the widget to execute.
In this example, we want to use the Slider widget (completely different from the Tapestry-jQuery Slider component).
The name parameter will be "slider" and Tapestry-jQuery will automatically call the jQuery widget : $(selector).slider(options).
Create a new mixin with a Sub-Class of Widget
You can also create a class, extending the Widget Class, in order to make some initialization for example. You will put this new class in the mixins sub-package. In this case, you do not have to specify the name parameter. By default, Tapestry-jQuery will take the name of the class.