Suggestion about wicket's Wizard

[David Chang <da...@yahoo.com>]

I have been playing wicket's Wizard (1.4.9) and feel it is quite helpful but lacking in some ways. 

Here is what I suggest:

1. Add a method (called size or something else) to WizardModel to provide the number of wizard steps it contains.

2. Add a method to Wizard or WizardModel to provide the index of a IWizardStep in a number of the wizard steps

3. The current WizardModel#previous remembers the click history in a browser style. Put it another way, it remembers whatever steps were visited and return to them in reversing (FILO) order. I call it browser style. This visit order does not reflect the actual order of wizard steps defined when a Wizard is created. I would like to see an added style (called Linear, for example) that strictly ask WizardModel#previous or another new method to return Wizard to step that is defined (NOT visited) before the current active wizard step. (The background for this request is that I created a few links each of which takes me directly to individual wizard steps in a Wizard. So i can visit the wizard steps in any order instead of following the default Previous and Next button. When I click a link and then click the Prevoius button, the wizard takes me to the previously visited wizard step, not the one defined before the current active step. I feel my need is a useful
 usecase. I inherited WizardModel and modified the previous method in order to satisfy the usecase). 

Best!





      

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Re: Suggestion about wicket's Wizard

[David Chang <da...@yahoo.com>]

Did not hear any feedback. Just curious about whether I explained clearly or about what others may think about my suggestions.

Regards.

--- On Fri, 6/18/10, David Chang <da...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: David Chang <da...@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Suggestion about wicket's Wizard
> To: users@wicket.apache.org
> Date: Friday, June 18, 2010, 5:39 PM
> I have been playing wicket's Wizard
> (1.4.9) and feel it is quite helpful but lacking in some
> ways. 
> 
> Here is what I suggest:
> 
> 1. Add a method (called size or something else) to
> WizardModel to provide the number of wizard steps it
> contains.
> 
> 2. Add a method to Wizard or WizardModel to provide the
> index of a IWizardStep in a number of the wizard steps
> 
> 3. The current WizardModel#previous remembers the click
> history in a browser style. Put it another way, it remembers
> whatever steps were visited and return to them in reversing
> (FILO) order. I call it browser style. This visit order does
> not reflect the actual order of wizard steps defined when a
> Wizard is created. I would like to see an added style
> (called Linear, for example) that strictly ask
> WizardModel#previous or another new method to return Wizard
> to step that is defined (NOT visited) before the current
> active wizard step. (The background for this request is that
> I created a few links each of which takes me directly to
> individual wizard steps in a Wizard. So i can visit the
> wizard steps in any order instead of following the default
> Previous and Next button. When I click a link and then click
> the Prevoius button, the wizard takes me to the previously
> visited wizard step, not the one defined before the current
> active step. I feel my need is a useful
>  usecase. I inherited WizardModel and modified the previous
> method in order to satisfy the usecase). 
> 
> Best!
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>       
> 
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