Trouble with ContextMenu and ModalPanel of RichFaces

[Wei Geng]

Hi all,

I met some trouble when I used the RichFaces contextMenu and modalPanel together.

I hope to show the modalPanel by clicking the context menu item.

For the first time I clicked the menu item, the modal was showed. However, the second time, the menu item even didn't execute. Then the third time, everything went well again. And then 4th time failed, 5th time succeeded, 6th time failed..., alternately.

Thus, 50% succeeded and 50% failed. It's too weird.

 		<f:view>
			<a4j:form>
				<h:panelGroup id="panelGroup">
					<h:outputText value="Right Click Me!"></h:outputText>
				</h:panelGroup>

				<rich:contextMenu attachTo="panelGroup" event="oncontextmenu"
					submitMode="ajax" disableDefaultMenu="true">
					<rich:menuItem value="try"
						oncomplete="#{rich:component('modalPanel')}.show()"
						actionListener="#{contextMenuTestBean.menuClicked}"></rich:menuItem>
				</rich:contextMenu>
			</a4j:form>

			<rich:modalPanel id="modalPanel">
				<f:facet name="header">
					<h:outputText value="Modal Panel" />
				</f:facet>
				<h:outputText value="Hello!" />
				<a4j:commandLink value="Close"
					onclick="#{rich:component('modalPanel')}.hide()"></a4j:commandLink>
			</rich:modalPanel>
		</f:view>   

When I remove the code on line 10.

  oncomplete="#{rich:component('modalPanel')}.show()"  

The actionListener of menuItem can be executed successfully every time.

Can anybody help to advise the reason?

Thanks in advance!

[Fan He]

I've met the similar problem that only the first time the panel can be displayed. From the second time (after the panel was hide for once) you will never see the panel.

The following alternative method may help:

    
<rich:menuItem>
    <h:outputLink value="#" id="link">
        Show Modal Panel 
        <rich:componentControl for="editPanel" attachTo="link" operation="show" event="onclick"/>
    </h:outputLink>
</rich:menuItem>

[Wei Geng]

Fan He wrote:I've met the similar problem that only the first time the panel can be displayed. From the second time (after the panel was hide for once) you will never see the panel.

The following alternative method may help:

Thanks for your reply and your alternative method.

However, I really want to know the root cause of that issue.

Did us make anything wrong with the code or is it actually a bug of RichFaces?

[Will Barquero]

Try changing your <rich:menuItem> tag to this:

<rich:menuItem value="try"
oncomplete=""Richfaces.showModalPanel('modalPanel',{width:200})"
actionListener="#{contextMenuTestBean.menuClicked}"
reRender="modalPanel" >
</rich:menuItem>