[Phpmyadmin-devel] AJAXify phpMyAdmin Interface - GSOC 2011 - Create Table in navigation panel

[Piotr Przybylski]

2011/5/10 Thilanka Kaushalya <lgtkaushalya at gmail.com>:
> Hi Marc,
>
>>
>> it makes sense to put your code in navigation.js but try to avoid code
>> duplication between this file and what is already in functions.js.
>>
>
> I tried to add a empty dialog within a navigation.js using the following
> code.
> $('<div id="create_table_dialog"></div>')
>          .dialog({
>             title: "CreateTable",
>                 height: 50,
>                 width: 90,
>                 buttons : button_options_error
> });
> This popups a dialog box with "OK" button and the title. But, since
> navigation.php works within the scope of a frame, the dialog is restricted
> to the navigation area within the UI. The screen shot (first screen shot )of
> the result is here with the google doc [1].
> I think this because PMA uses separate frames for navigation panel and the
> rest of the content.
> I need to improve the dialog box as it shows in the 2nd screen shot.
> How can I change the scope of the dialog box in order to popup it balanced
> in the page. Please help me on this issue.
> [1]
> - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1g9WzTFQsCwKzBOHJpuS0XIaXhUClbVneZYeuDVuqyh0/edit?hl=en&authkey=CLGQz_wB

You create #create_table_dialog in navigation frame - try to do it in
top frame or content frame. I'm not sure about browser policies on
cross-frame DOM manipulation, so maybe you will have to do it in
function located in top/content frame, not directly from navigation
frame.

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Piotr Przybylski