Question

Using Woodwing, we have a page that has custom html in it, using the custom web widget.

That widget has an anchor tag, that when tapped, opens a page in safari.

However, if we create the same page using the HTML widget, and a link overlay, that triggers a ModalView to display.

I’m assuming this has something to do with WoodWing’s (un)documented protocols for the anchor tags, that are captured by the WoodWing shell application and used to trigger the “ModalView” display. Since everything in Woodwing generates an XML that is parsed when the app is loaded, and I’ve done numerous applications, this seems reasonable. However, there is very little technical documentation.

My question is: does anyone know any documentation on those protocols, or a way I can use custom-html to trigger the ModalView? I’ve tried replacing “http” with “ww” but no dice. It’s possible it’s javascript but I’m suspecting protocols…

Answer 1

The default HTML widget implementation doesn’t support this out of the box. There are two ways that you can do to achieve this;

• Implement what they call a ‘custom object’. They documented this feature, if you have access to their documentation this should be relatively easy to figure out. It allows you to write native objects and inject them into both the .ofip format and the application.
• Implement a modal dialog within the widget (in HTML). This is less convenient but possible to do (if you have a fullscreen widget).