Alert Widget

The Alert widget enables you to draw the attention of users to inform something or to request users to perform an action.

Some real-world scenarios where you can use an Alert widget are as follows:

To display notifications
To display advertisements
To display a confirmation to exit an application
To show error messages
To display reminders
To make users perform compliance tasks, such as to complete a pending payment before allowing users to use the application.

Here are some features of the Alert widget:

Modal: When an Alert widget is invoked, a user cannot perform any other actions on the parent application without taking some action on the alert.

Handling the Yes and No button: Specify JavaScript functions that must be executed when a user dismisses the alert. You can provide this function for both Yes and No buttons.

Customizing an alert: Customize the skin, title, and icon of an alert by using an Alert widget.

An Alert is a dialog box that pops-up with a message. You can use these types of alert dialog boxes:

Confirmation
Error
Info

The Alert widget capabilities can be broadly categorized into the following:

Data Management
Enabling RTL
Miscellaneous

Data Management

Properties	Description
alertTitle	Specifies the Title of the alert.
message	Specifies the message description of the alert to be displayed.

Enabling RTL

Properties	Description
retainContentAlignment	Helps to retain the content alignment of the widget while applying RTL.
retainFlexPositionProperties	Helps to retain the left, right and padding properties while applying RTL.
retainFlowHorizontalAlignment	Enables you to change the horizontal flow of the widget from left to right.

Miscellaneous

Methods	Description
dismissAlert	Used to dismiss an alert.

Events	Description
alertHandler	Specifies the JavaScript function that should get called when alert is dismissed either through "Yes" button or through "No" button.

Properties	Description
accessibilityConfig	Enables you to control accessibility behavior and alternative text for the widget.
alertIcon	Specifies the Icon to be displayed to visually indicate the type of alert.
alertType	Specifies the Type of the alert window to be displayed.
cursorType	Specifies the type of mouse pointer used.
noLabel	Specifies the descriptive Text for the "No" label.
yesLabel	Specifies the descriptive Text for the "Yes" label.
textOverflow	Specifies whether text wrapping is enabled below the image when the text message is more than image height.

Alert Widget Basics

When to Use an Alert

You can use an Alert in many situations, some of them are:

If you want to warn the user about something, for example, "You will now be redirected to the xyz website, Press Yes to proceed and No to cancel".
An error has occurred and you want to inform the user. For example, if the user enters incorrect password.
To inform the user about a transaction is completed successfully.

Creating an Alert Using a Constructor: kony.ui.Alert

Example

var alert = kony.ui.Alert(basicConfigs, pspConfigs);

In the example, the input parameters are as follows:

basicConfigs is an object with configuration properties.
pspConfigs is an object with platform specific configuration properties.

NOTE:

In all native implementations alert is non blocking. Which means execution of logic (placed after the alert creation) will not wait for the alert confirmation but execution continues.
Currently creating kony.ui.Alert itself will show the alert and end user has to respond to it. Alert Handle returned is not of any use but in future there is possibility of allowing the developers to show, dismiss the alert programmatically through this handle.
The configuration properties should be passed only in the respective configuration objects otherwise they are ignored

Example

//Creating the alert with the alertIcon:"icon.png"
var alertBasic = {
    message: "Sample Alert",
    alertIcon: "icon.png"
};

var alertPSP = {};

var alert = kony.ui.Alert(alertBasic, alertPSP);