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[Jens Pfau <jens.pfau@xxxxxxxxx>]

The problem with the top bar is that it wouldn't look nice when an error
message spans multiple lines.

We could just create a new div in Mugle.html above the main-panel div.

Gmail shows messages at a similar spot and not in the top bar.


On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 10:56 PM, Prageeth Silva <prageethsilva@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> OK my mistake. I think the one Jens mentioned was was another error-display
> message used by the initial popup window. I can't remember why i ended up
> removing this particular one using Mugle.java.
>
> May be we can use this for error messages. Do you want me to go ahead and
> implement it? If so, which would the perfect spot be? I personally like the
> top bar because we already have allocated space at the top.
>
> Where as, the top of the contents panel would mean that there can be cases
> that the message appears on top of (z-index increased) other objects, OR we
> may have to push them down.
>
> Another reason I don't like having it there is that, we should always be
> able to clear the whole contents panel at any given time and not have to
> think of the common divs that should be regenerated.
>
> However, I may be wrong; so let me know what exactly needs to be
> implemented.
>
>
> On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 10:44 PM, Matt Giuca <matt.giuca@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> That may be true, but we don't *have* to remove it. Just hide it (either
>> with CSS display: hidden, or some GWT method for hiding objects) and bring
>> it back when an error occurs.
>>
>
>
>
> --
> *Prageeth Silva*
>