How did they do that?
Laszlo Mail has generated a lot of excitement in the OpenLaszlo community. We get a lot of questions about how it was created. Most of our time is devoted to making it better, but we all love the platform so everyone on the team is pretty dedicated to making it better.
We’ve recently contributed a couple of components (announced on the Open Laszlo blog):
* tooltip
* rich text editor
Other techniques folks have asked about:
* Split panes with adjustable split sliders: these are really simple actually… not much more than a constrained drag state (dragstate is a built in component).
* Modal windows with grayed out backgrounds: this is a partially opaque view that covers the whole canvas. We also use the mode manager to make it so that only the dialog gets user input.