5.5.2.1.30. PopupButton
API DOCS

This is a button with a popup. Popup may contain a drop-down list of actions or a custom content.

PopupButton

XML name of the component: popupButton.

The component is implemented for Web Client and Desktop Client.

PopupButton can contain text, which is specified using the caption attribute, or icon (or both). A tooltip can be defined in the description attribute. The figure below shows different types of buttons:

gui popupButtonTypes

popupButton elements:

  • actions - specifies the drop-down actions list.

    Only the following action properties are displayed: caption, enable, visible. The description and shortcut properties are ignored. Handling of the icon property depends on the cuba.gui.showIconsForPopupMenuActions application property and the showActionIcons attribute of the component. The latter has priority.

    Below is an example of a button with a drop-down list containing two actions:

    <popupButton id="popupButton" caption="msg://popupButton" description="Press me">
    <actions>
        <action id="popupAction1" caption="msg://action1" invoke="someAction1"/>
        <action id="popupAction2" caption="msg://action2" invoke="someAction2"/>
    </actions>
</popupButton>

    You can create the actions from scratch or use the actions already defined for any element in the current screen, for example:

    <popupButton id="popupButton">
    <actions>
        <action id="ordersTable.create"/>
        <action id="ordersTable.edit"/>
        <action id="ordersTable.remove"/>
    </actions>
</popupButton>

  • popup - sets custom inner content for the popup. Actions are ignored if a custom popup content is set.

    Below is an example of a custom popup layout:

    <popupButton id="popupButton"
             caption="Settings"
             align="MIDDLE_CENTER"
             icon="font-icon:GEARS"
             closePopupOnOutsideClick="true"
             popupOpenDirection="BOTTOM_CENTER">
    <popup>
        <vbox width="250px"
              height="AUTO"
              spacing="true"
              margin="true">
            <label value="Settings"
                   align="MIDDLE_CENTER"
                   stylename="h2"/>
            <progressBar caption="Progress"
                         width="100%"/>
            <textField caption="New title"
                       width="100%"/>
            <lookupField caption="Status"
                         optionsEnum="com.haulmont.cuba.core.global.SendingStatus"
                         width="100%"/>
            <hbox spacing="true">
                <button caption="Save" icon="SAVE"/>
                <button caption="Reset" icon="REMOVE"/>
            </hbox>
        </vbox>
    </popup>
</popupButton>
    gui popupButton custom

popupButton attributes:

  • autoClose - defines if the popup should be closed automatically after the action triggering.

  • closePopupOnOutsideClick - if set to true, clicking on the outside the popup closes it. This does not affect clicking on the button itself.

  • menuWidth - sets the popup menu width.

  • popupOpenDirection - sets the opening direction for the popup. Possible values:

    • BOTTOM_LEFT,

    • BOTTOM_RIGHT,

    • BOTTOM_CENTER.

  • showActionIcons - enables displaying icons for action buttons.

  • togglePopupVisibilityOnClick - defines whether sequential click on the popup should toggle popup visibility.

Methods of the PopupButton interface:

  • addPopupVisibilityListener() - adds a listener to intercept the events of the component’s visibility changes.

    popupButton.addPopupVisibilityListener(popupVisibilityEvent -> {
    showNotification("Popup visibility changed");
});
Attributes of popupButton

align - autoClose - caption - closePopupOnOutsideClick - description - enable - icon - id - menuWidth - popupOpenDirection - showActionIcons - stylename - tabIndex - togglePopupVisibilityOnClick - visible - width

Elements of popupButton

actions - popup

API

addPopupVisibilityListener