Re: Dynamically generated HTML and GWT

Jens,

They way I use the widgets, maybe not supported, work perfectly. It is made part of the widget hierarchy. And when I remove the widget, everything is again cleaned up. I did a lot of memory leak investigating and it is just working the way it should. Even if the window close event is triggered, they get properly cleaned up just like the rest of the widget hierarchy.

The wrap methods on Widget assume and do too much and that makes them not usable beyond the scope of wrapping non nested widgets.

David

On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 5:26 PM, Jens <jens.nehlmeier@gmail.com> wrote:

From my experimentation with wrap() I can see very few circumstances in which case it is actually useful.  It appears to be useful where there is only one page.  The way nesting of widgets is handled would make it tricky in anything more complicated.

Yes, imagine a login application. Its UI is pretty easy and you could design it right in your host html page, so no RootPanel, no LayoutPanels, etc. If you want to do any useful with it you would get a handle to these DOM elements and now you can decide if you want to work with the low level element API or if you want the higher level Widget API by using any existing *.wrap() method to attach GWT widgets to these elements. These widgets created by *.wrap() do not have any parent widgets and will cleanup themselves once you leave the login page. So IMHO its indeed for simple use cases.

There are probably a good reasons why you can not wrap elements that are already managed by a widget. E.g. if you remove the widget, what would happen to the wrapped widget then?

-- J.

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