Re: Creating a second page

I don't use GWT designer and probably will never do, like most people that are building a long time with GWT.

Don't get me wrong: it's a great tool, but like with all visual designer tools: with experience comes detail requirements that can't be done through a designer tool.

Anyway, some advice on how to do it without designer:

Take a SimpleWidget panel, add that to the body, or other html element and wen you want to go to another page simple replace the widget in SimpleWidget.

in pseudo code:

SimpleWidget outer = new SimpleWidget();

RootPanel.get("pageId").add(outer);

outer.setWidget(page1); // showing page 1

...

going to  page 2 some where in code:

outer.setWidget(page2); // showing page 2

Just put this outer panel in a central Register (Singleton class) such that it can be reached from anywhere and you are done...

Then if you want, add to some Fade In/Out effect when adding page1 and page2... Do this ina  transparent way such that the code that add's page X won't see this... 

Fade effects looks so much better and professional when navigating. I always do it by wrapping any GWT Panel through my own panel such that the user that adds a widget to the panel won't notice the effect as it's a property of the panel... 

BTW: wrapping a panel is also good for testing..., see: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/google-web-toolkit/hwMKmuZv4BI

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