rich:modalPanel: How to send parameters

[rituraj_tiwari]

I had posted this originally under the Seam user forum.

have a list of items with a Delete button next to each item. If the user hits the delete button, I would like to pop up a model dialog for confirmation before deleting the item. My problem is, I am unable to send any parameters to the modal dialog in order to display attributes of the item selected in the dialog.

Here is a snip of the code: The modal dialog panel:

<rich:modalPanel id="deleteEmailConfirm"
...
 <tr>
 <td><h:commandButton value="Yes" onclick="confirmEmailDelete()"/></td>
 <td><h:commandButton value="No" onclick="cancelEmailDelete()"/></td>
 </tr>
...

This modal panel is invoked from the following JS function:

function preDeleteEmail(email, uid)
 {
 var emailToDelete = new Object();
 emailToDelete.email = email;
 emailToDelete.uid = uid;


 // show confirmation dialog
 var panel = Richfaces.findModalPanel('deleteEmailConfirm');

 // got to set the email in question on the panel itself since the
 // DOM is not available there
 panel.emailToDelete = emailToDelete;
 Richfaces.showModalPanel('deleteEmailConfirm',{width:400, top:200})
 }

And the confirmation and cancellation functions:

function cancelEmailDelete()
 {
 Richfaces.hideModalPanel('deleteEmailConfirm');
 Richfaces.findModalPanel('deleteEmailConfirm').emailToDelete=undefned;
 }

 function confirmEmailDelete()
 {
 // Get the handle to the panel
 var email = Richfaces.findModalPanel('deleteEmailConfirm').emailToDelete;
 Seam.Component.getInstance("EditProfile").deleteEmail(email.uid,
 function(result)
 {
 // simulate cancel
 cancelEmailDelete();
 // update email display
 Seam.Component.getInstance("EditProfile").getEmails(getEmailsCallback);
 });
 }

My problem is that findModalPanel always returns undefined. I cannot think of any other way to get information about the selected item to the code in the modal panel.

Any ideas?
-Raj