showDialog

showDialog action triggers the display of a modal dialog box within the app, presenting users with important information, notifications, or customizable content while pausing the main app flow, ensuring clear and focused communication with users.

Properties

Property	Type	Description
widget	widget	Return an inline widget or specify a custom widget’s name to use in the dialog.
options	object	see properties
dismissible	boolean	This property denotes whether the dialog can be dismissed by tapping outside of it. Default is `true`.
onDialogDismiss	action	Execute an Action when the dialog is dismissed.

properties.options

Property	Type	Description
minWidth	integer
maxWidth	integer
minHeight	integer
horizontalOffset	number	Offset the dialog’s position horizontally, with -1.0 for the screen’s left and 1.0 for the screen’s right. (default is 0 for centering horizontally) minimum `-1.0` and maximum `1.0`
verticalOffset	number	Offset the dialog’s position vertically, with -1.0 for the screen’s top and 1.0 for the screen’s bottom. (default is 0 for centering vertically) minimum `-1.0` and maximum `1.0`
style	string	Render the dialog with a default style. You can also specify ‘none’ and control your own styles in your widget. `default` `none`

Example

Here we are gonna see how we can


View:
  header:
    title: Dialog
  onLoad:
    showDialog:
      widget: MyStartingDialog
 
  body:
    Column:
      styles: { margin: 10, gap: 5 }
      children:
        # use inline widget
        - Text:
            text: Your dialog can also be an inline widget
        - Button:
            label: Show Dialog
            onTap:
              showDialog:
                widget:
                  Text:
                    text: This dialog declares the widget inline and uses the default style.
 
        - Spacer:
            styles:
              size: 20
 
        # use custom styling
        - Text:
            text: You can customize the dialog style
        - Button:
            label: Show Custom Dialog
            onTap:
              showDialog:
                widget: MyCustomDialog
                options:
                  # no default style - zero margin/padding, no background color
                  style: none
                  # move it up half way between the top and the center of the screen
                  verticalOffset: -0.5
 
# Custom Widget
MyStartingDialog:
  body:
    Column:
      styles:
        gap: 10
      children:
        - Text:
            text: Welcome to Ensemble
            styles:
              fontSize: 16
              fontWeight: bold
        - Text:
            text: This dialog pops up when the user first visits the page.
        - Button:
            label: Close dialog
            onTap: closeAllDialogs
 
MyCustomDialog:
  body:
    Column:
      styles:
        gap: 10
        backgroundColor: 0xffD7BFA8
        borderRadius: 10
        margin: 20
        padding: 20
      children:
        - Text:
            text: |-
              This dialog set its own margin/padding and background color.
 
              It also offset the dialog position vertically.

Try complete example here

Example with inputs

We can also make use of inputs property for showDialog action to pass any input parameters to be used with dialog. Lets look at the previous example but this time with some input values.


View:
  header:
    title: Dialog
  onLoad:
    showDialog:
      widget: MyStartingDialog
  body:
    Column:
      styles: { margin: 10, gap: 5 }
      children:
	- Text:
            text: You can customize the dialog style and provide inputs as well
        - Button:
            label: Show Custom Dialog
            onTap:
              showDialog:
                widget:
                  MyCustomDialog:
                    inputs:
                      name: Peter
                options:
                  # no default style - zero margin/padding, no background color
                  style: none
                  # move it up half way between the top and the center of the screen
                  verticalOffset: -0.5
 
                onDialogDismiss: |
                  //@code
                  console.log("dialog dismissed");
 
MyCustomDialog:
  inputs:
    - name
  body:
    Column:
      styles:
        gap: 10
        backgroundColor: 0xffD7BFA8
        borderRadius: 10
        margin: 20
        padding: 20
      children:
        - Text:
            text: |-
              Hi ${name}
              This dialog set its own margin/padding and background color.
 
              It also offset the dialog position vertically.

Explanation

In the code for showDialog we are passing an input name with value Peter which can be seen clearly in the output.

Example with Controlled dismissible property

We can use dismissble property to control whether the dialog can be dismissble while tapping outside of it or not. If dismissble is false, dialog will not dismiss on tapping outside of it and vice verca. Default dismissblestate of dialog is true. If you don’t specify the property then the dialog will be dismissble.


View:
  header:
    title: Dialog
  body:
    Column:
      styles:
        padding: 24
        gap: 16
      children:
        - Button:
            label: Show undismissible dialog
            onTap:
              showDialog:
                dismissible: false
                body:
                  Text:
                    text: This is undismissible dialog
        - Button:
            label: Show Undismissble dialog (Custom dismiss implementation )
            onTap:
              showDialog:
                dismissible: false
                body:
                  Column:
                    children:
                      - Text:
                          text: This is undismissible dialog
                      - Button:
                          label: Dismiss
                          onTap:
                            dismissDialog: