[IPython-dev] Widget View post render hook

[Jonathan Frederic]

Hi Nik,

I'm glad you like the widgets and thank you for the feedback.  I
encountered the same problem when implementing a D3.js widget (see
https://github.com/jdfreder/ipython-d3).  As a hack-ish workaround I used a
timeout with a 0ms interval (
https://github.com/jdfreder/ipython-d3/blob/master/widget_forcedirectedgraph.js#L13).
 Right now I don't believe we have a nice way to do this, adding an event
or method is probably a good idea.

-Jon


On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 11:27 AM, Nikolas Tezak <ntezak at stanford.edu> wrote:

> Hi everybody,
>
> first of all, I _love_ the widgets, they are extremely useful!! And I'm
> super impressed by IPython's crazy fast development progress.
> I am currently trying to create a custom widget type that embeds a jsplumb
> circuit editor
> ( http://jsplumbtoolkit.com/demo/home/jquery.html )
>
> However, when I implement my custom "render" method for the view I am
> running into a problem.
> I first dynamically create the circuit components (currently just
> absolutely positioned divs within the widget view's this.$el div. This
> works fine.
> I then initialize a jsplumb instance and pass this.$el as the default
> container.
> Now, however, when I try to add the connectors and connections with
> jsplumb within the render method, it fails because jsplumb is trying to
> read out dynamically the position of the widget view's div before that div
> has been inserted into the DOM.
>
> So basically, my problem is that I want code within "render()" that
> already requires the view to be inserted into the document.
> Should I use a different approach, i.e., maybe put this initialization
> code into "update()", or do you expect that this will be a common enough
> use case that it would justify adding a special post render hook that gets
> called after the view's div has been attached to a cell's widget sub_area?
>
>
> I hope I described this well enough, let me know if you'd like me to share
> a code example.
> Thanks,
>
> Nik
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