Default card in CardContainer

When a view with CardContainer is opened, the visible card is the one
that was left opened (selected) in the ViewComposer.
Suppose I want to change that after the view has been saved.  I open
the ViewComposer and select some other card.  The ViewComposer change
marker does not show any change as I think it should.

Regards,
Daniel

You have to save the view again.

But you can change the selected card inside a Presenter.

MyPresenter
onViewOpened
    super onViewOpened.
    (view viewNamed: 'cardContainer') nextCard.

Or you can use:

(view viewNamed: 'cardContainer') layoutManager showCardWithArrangement:
'Method source'.

Regards Bruno


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"Bruno Buzzi Brasesco" <[hidden email]> wrote in message news:<[hidden email]>...
> You have to save the view again.

Yes, I know and I do that.  It is just that it seems to me that the
change marker should show the fact that something has changed and the
View must be saved.
I know it is cosmetic but would love to see it fixed up.

I think one should register to the event #currentCardChanged that the
card container triggers and send setModified to the ViewComposer.
I tried to do it myself but failed to avoid a horrible hack, so I'll
leave it to the will of experts ;o)

Regards,
Daniel

Daniel,

> I know it is cosmetic but would love to see it fixed up.

I have to say that I find that feature slightly annoying.  It's not a great
problem but I can certainly remember times where I have had to reopen the VC
and re-edit a view because I have left the wrong tab selected when the view
was saved.

I was wondering if an aspect of CardContainer named something like
#initialSelectionIndex might be a better idea.  You would select the index
of the card to be initially displayed and it then wouldn't matter which tab
was selected when the view was saved.

Just a thought....

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Ian Bartholomew wrote:

> I have to say that I find that feature slightly annoying.

A little bit more than "slightly" IMO.  Not that it's the end of the world,
even so, but...


> I was wondering if an aspect of CardContainer named something like
> #initialSelectionIndex might be a better idea.

Perhaps it'd be worth generalising to a universal "has initial focus" attribute
of all Views (rather than defaulting to the "first" subview as is currently the
case).  I admit that I've not tried to work out the details.

    -- chris

"Ian Bartholomew" <[hidden email]> wrote in message
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> Daniel,
>
> > I know it is cosmetic but would love to see it fixed up.
>
> I have to say that I find that feature slightly annoying.  It's not a
great
> problem but I can certainly remember times where I have had to reopen the
VC
> and re-edit a view because I have left the wrong tab selected when the
view
> was saved.

Yes, I am equally annoyed by this.  It can be a pain particularly when I am
making that one last little change that does not turn out to really be the
last change. ;)

> I was wondering if an aspect of CardContainer named something like
> #initialSelectionIndex might be a better idea.  You would select the index
> of the card to be initially displayed and it then wouldn't matter which
tab
> was selected when the view was saved.

I think that would be useful.

Chris

Chris ,

> Perhaps it'd be worth generalising to a universal "has initial focus"
> attribute of all Views (rather than defaulting to the "first" subview
> as is currently the case).  I admit that I've not tried to work out
> the details.

I'm not sure that be enough though. For example, if you had a Shell
containing a number of widgets, including a TabView, you might end up
needing two objects (one of the widgets and the appropriate tab view) to
have the "has initial focus" attribute set.  It's quite a good idea but I
think you'd have to end up with two attributes, a general one and another
one specific to TabViews.

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Ian Bartholomew wrote:

> [...] I
> think you'd have to end up with two attributes, a general one and another
> one specific to TabViews.

I'm afraid you're right.

    -- chris