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Revision as of 11:40, 25 November 2010


Inter-Desktop Communication


Unlike pages, you cannot access two desktops at the same time. You cannot send or post an event from one desktop to another directly, either. Rather, we have to use a event queue with a proper scope, such as group, session or application -- depending on where the other desktop is located.

Desktops in the Same Browser Window

In most cases, a browser window has at most one desktop. However, it is still possible to multiple desktops in one browser window:

  • Use HTML IFRAME or FRAMESET to integrate multiple ZUML pages
  • Use a portal server to integrate multiple ZK portlet
  • Assembly multiple ZUML pages at the client, such as this templating technology

In this case, you could communicate among desktops by use of an event queue with the group scope.

EventQueue que = EventQueues.lookup("groupTest", EventQueues.GROUP, true);
que.subscribe(new EventListener() {
	public void onEvent(Event evt) {
		//receive event from this event queue (within the same group of desktops)
	}
});

Here is a dumb example: chat among iframes.

<-- main -->
<window title="main" border="normal" onOK="publish()">
	<zscript>
	EventQueue que = EventQueues.lookup("groupTest", "group", true);
	que.subscribe(new EventListener() {
		public void onEvent(Event evt) {
			o.setValue(o.getValue() + evt.getData() + "\n");
		}
	});
	void publish() {
		String text = i.getValue();
		if (text.length() > 0) {
			i.setValue("");
			que.publish(new Event("onGroupTest", null, text));
		}
	}
	</zscript>
	Please enter:
	<textbox id="i" onChange="publish()"/>		
	<textbox id="o" rows="6"/>
	<separator/>
	<iframe src="includee.zul" height="500px" width="30%"/>
	<iframe src="includee.zul" height="500px" width="30%"/>
	<iframe src="includee.zul" height="500px" width="30%"/>
</window>

And, this is the ZUML page being referenced (by iframe).

<!-- includee.zul -->
<window title="frame2" border="normal" onOK="publish()">
	<zscript>
		EventQueue que = EventQueues.lookup("groupTest", "group", true);
		que.subscribe(new EventListener() {
			public void onEvent(Event evt) {
				o.setValue(o.getValue() + evt.getData() + "\n");
			}
		});
		void publish() {
			String text = i.getValue();
			if (text.length() > 0) {
				i.setValue("");
				que.publish(new Event("onGroupTest", null, text));
			}
		}
	</zscript>
	<textbox id="i" onChange="publish()"/>		
	<textbox id="o" rows="6"/>
</window>

Desktop in Different Sessions

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