I need to embed an Applet (telnet and ssh in this case) into my ITMill application.
I have searched for, and found a number of references to how an Applet can be Embedded into an ITMill application - can anyone tell me which ones (if any) will work with 5.3.1, and which one is the simplest/best approach (see list below) ?
Is it possible to embed the Applet inside an ITMill modal dialog, so that it looks like it is part of that dialog ?
If embedding in a modal dialog is possible, when I close the modal dialog, can I force the Embedded Applet to be closed ?
Using a Label or Embedded Component as suggested
here by Marc. If this is applicable, could any details be provided
on how to code the Label or Embedded solution ? http://forum.itmill.com/posts/list/484.page
Yes, the I can make the code available… just haven’t got the time for it yet.
For a background info about applets with IT Mill Toolkit:
From IT Mill Toolkit most implementations here inherit from the Embedded component. That is the easy part… at least for me it was
The small annoying things are in the JavaScript-Applet communication, which is needed to make the applet to fit into GWT and this “single-page” web application structure:
In general, applet can be only added once to a single DOM document with JavaScript
Also, applet parameters cannot be changed after the first added to DOM
Communication between JavaScript must be in separate “messaging thread”. Otherwise the applet functions will inherit the security permissions of JS code when invoked
(When I talk about JavaScript here, I also mean the GWT code/widgets)
Also make sure that you use at least 5.3.1 version of IT Mill Toolkit as the previous versions had a layouting problem that made the applet re-added to DOM and broke first rule above.
In my screenshot demo I made a more generic applet widget that tried to circumvent these restrictions. I’m lacking the time to package this accordingly, but I can send the raw code if it helps you.
