Hi Colin,
Thanks for the reply and suggestions. Very helpful but the problem is not
fully solved.
The nodes in the tree structure act as links at most time. Inline editor is
to provide users with a convenient way to edit the link titles. That's why a
switch is being used. I had a look at the windows explorer, one click on the
folder opens up the folder content, a slow double click turns the text into
edit mode. Is that what you meant how to have view and edit within the same
mode. I was told that double click is not applicable for accessibility
reason. Some ppl with disability may not be able to make 2 quick clicks.
In terms of 2 suggestions of turning on and off inline editor:
1. I use the onBeginEdit event and try to override the hover invitation and
the tooltip. The links are still not clickable.
2. "Content navigation" is a small portion on the whole page. Re-fetching
page from server will result in the lose of the data on the current page.
How can I switch the links from inline editor back to the real clickable
links. Pain!
Thanks a lot for the help.
I will be on vacation for 2 weeks from tomorrow. So, I will stay quiet for a
while. Cheers!
Cindy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Colin Clark" <[email protected]>
To: "Cindy Qi Li" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 12:20 PM
Subject: Re: How to turn off inline editor
Hi Cindy,
Good question! The community has been really heads-down with the upcoming
Engage/Infusion release and our interactive final report website, so I'm
really sorry for the delay in responding.
InlineEdit's real advantage in terms of usability is that it avoids
separate modes for editing and viewing content. The idea here is that
users can be viewing content and quickly edit portions of it without
having to switch into a separate mode. I don't know your particular
design requirements, but you may want to think about how to maximize that
advantage and not require users to activate a separate "edit" mode to use
Inline Edit.
Since your particular example uses a tree structure, you might want to
think about an interaction similar to what you see on the desktop, where
activating the tree and editing its contents can be done within the same
mode. Check out Windows Explorer or Mac OS's List View for some design
inspiration here.
If you do need to turn Inline Edit on and off with a mode, there should
be a few workable options for you. At the moment, we don't provide a way
for actively destroying or unbinding InlineEdit because it presents a
performance risk if there are a lot of components on the page.
One option is to use the onBeginEdit event you mentioned, along with some
dynamic CSS changes. So for the two issues you mention--the hover
invitation and the tooltip--there are two styles you can can adjust:
Tooltip: .fl-inlineEdit-tooltip
Hover Invitation: .fl-inlineEdit-invitation
You could write a little function that you bind to your Edit button's
onclick event that overrides these two styles to make them invisible.
Another super-simple, though not ideal, option is to invoke a round trip
to the server and have your PHP code only inject the InlineEdit
JavaScript if you're in the edit mode.
I hope this helps. Don't hesitate to ping the list if you have more
questions or need a code example of this in action.
Colin
On 9-Sep-09, at 3:59 PM, Cindy Qi Li wrote:
Hi,
This test script will help to understand my question:
http://www.atutor.ca/atutor/test/test.html
The lines on the page are either toggles to expand/collapse the tree or
links to redirect the page. By clicking the icon at the top right
corner,
the fluid inline editor is applied and all the lines become editable. My
question is how to use javascript, not refreshing page, to turn off the
inline editor when clicking the icon at the top right corner again,
which
means all the lines are reverted back to toggles or links. One
suggestion I
received (thanks to Justin and Colin) is to return false at event
"onBeginEdit". But it only prevents the inline editor from going into
the
edit mode. All the inline editor features like mouseover, background
color
change are still in place and the lines lose the functionalities of
being
toggles/links. The best I hope to achieve is to revert the page back to
the
initial state without the inline editor. Is this possible?
Another way I was trying is to remove the objects/attributes/events that
are
added fluid.inlineEdits but seems never be able to clean up all. I end
up
with the this test page.
Thanks.
- Cindy from ATutor team
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Colin Clark
Technical Lead, Fluid Project
http://fluidproject.org
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