[Engine-devel] IE9 Issue with UI Plugin

[Vojtech Szocs]

Hi Ricky,

code running in the iframe (custom dialog content) can close the dialog in the following way:

1, send message to your plugin to indicate the dialog needs to be closed:

    parent.postMessage('CloseMyDialog', '*');

2, your plugin intercepts the message via MessageReceived function and closes the dialog:

    MessageReceived: function(data, sourceWindow) {
        switch (data) {
            case 'CloseMyDialog':
                window.alert('About to close dialog');
                api.closeDialog('my-dialog');
                break;
        }
    }

If the above doesn't work for you, it could mean that:
- MessageReceived function isn't invoked - make sure to have [*] before api.register() call
- api.closeDialog() function isn't working - in this case I need to fix it for IE9

[*] accept message events from iframe (custom dialog content) origin

    api.options({
        allowedMessageOrigins: 'http://nicedomain:8080'
        /* OR */
        allowedMessageOrigins: ['http://nicedomain1:123', 'https://nicedomain2:345']
    });

I'm going to investigate this issue on IE9 myself to see if the above code is really working there.

Vojtech


----- Original Message -----
> From: "Richard Hopper" <Richard.Hopper at netapp.com>
> To: "Vojtech Szocs" <vszocs at redhat.com>
> Cc: engine-devel at ovirt.org, "Christopher Morrissey" <Christopher.Morrissey at netapp.com>
> Sent: Monday, June 17, 2013 8:16:03 PM
> Subject: IE9 Issue with UI Plugin
> 
> Hi Vojtech,
> 
> I had previously sent you an email about IE9 compatibility where the problem
> we were having was solved by omitting console logging when a console was
> unavailable (i.e. IE). However, it is looking like IE9 may have a bigger
> issue with regards to the plugin framework.
> 
> Now that we have gotten dialogs to open via dynamically inserted buttons
> within RHEV tabs (for example, a NetApp button in the Storage tab), we can
> go through our whole process with the exception of closing the window. In
> all other browsers, our dialog will close as expected, but in IE the window
> remains open. It can be closed by hitting the red "x" in the corner, but it
> appears the code in the frame itself cannot close the window, with a console
> message in the dev tools of IE9 showing an error of "'Math' is undefined".
> I've read up on this, and it seems like this is a very widespread error in
> Internet Explorer concerning the manner/order in which iframes are
> dynamically inserted.
> 
> I've copied engine-devel in case anyone has similar issues/solutions, but it
> seems as though we need some sort of clause in the plugin framework for IE
> when it comes to dynamic insertion of new windows.
> 
> - Ricky Hopper
>