GWT: x.x, Edition, allow user enter the page number to display a specific page of an edition

• replace the page ID label with an editable text field
• set field character length to 5 and don’t enforce value length (MD: setEnforceLength is not available in current SmartGWT library)
• On escape event: abort and reset the field value
• On return event:
  • check if page exists
    • No: display an error messagev in status line
      • after 5 tries, show the error message in a dialog box
    • Yes: Go to the page

Test protocol

• open Graal edition
• type in the page number field “190b” and Enter
  • the page 190b is displayed
• type “z190b”
  • the page z190b (from the Z manuscript) is displayed
• type “999” (not existing page)
  • error message is displayed, the wrong number is still displayed, the page displayed does not change
• re-type Enter four more times
  • another error message is displayed, the page number is reset to the one of the page being displayed
• type another wrong page number “xxx”
  • error message is displayed
• type Escape
  • the page number is reset to current

note: see http://www.smartclient.com/smartgwt/javadoc/com/smartgwt/client/widgets/form/fields/TextItem.html setEnforceLength(boolean enforceLength) setLength(Integer length)

(from redmine: issue id 627, created on 2014/02/19 by Alexey Lavrentev)

added type::task + 1 deleted label

changed milestone to %Portal 0.6.1

Test partly successful:

• (+) can type an existing page number, and the page is displayed
• (-) if the number is wrong, no error message displayed bu just “Loading page with ID=XXX” in the console
• (+) after 5 attempts “No page found with ID=XXX” error message is displayed
• (-) Escape button has no effect

(from redmine: written on 2014/11/10 by Alexey Lavrentev)

• (+) can type an existing page number, and the page is displayed
• (+) if the number is wrong, the error message is displayed in the status bar
• (+) after 5 attempts an error message is displayed in a pop-up
• (+) Escape button sets page to the number previously displayed

(from redmine: written on 2014/11/14 by Alexey Lavrentev)

added time estimate of 5h

closed

assigned to @mdecorde