I discovered jQuery via Cody Lindley's Thickbox script and will warn everyone that I have only a very basic understanding of javascript (despite several years' worth of ASP, PHP, etc).
That said, I'm running into a problem using jQuery 1.0.4 with other scripts that use the Prototype library. Per the notes on the jQuery site, I have redefined $ in jQuery as JQ, and I have changed $ to JQ in the Thickbox script accordingly. It is working well for displaying image galleries. However, there are times when jQuery uses the merge function internally and that's when there is a problem. In most places in the jQuery script, merge is called as jQuery.merge, but on line 1000 it is called as $.merge. When I use a Thickbox function that requires the merge functionality (though Thickbox never calls merge directly) I get an error message that says "TypeError: $.merge is not a function". If I then switch to the uncompressed version of jQuery and change that line to use jQuery.merge instead of $.merge it seems to work fine. Also, through testing I have noticed that this problem does not occur with the copy of jQuery.js (rev 249 dated 8/31/06) that comes with Thickbox 2.1. So... is this a bug in jQuery 1.0.4 or am I doing something wrong? And if it is a bug, will there be a new compressed copy of jQuery.js produced? Obviously I'd rather use the compressed version, but I don't know how to do this myself. Thanks for any help or advice. Paul -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Problem-redefining-%24-with-merge-function-tf2866332.html#a8010465 Sent from the JQuery mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list discuss@jquery.com http://jquery.com/discuss/
