Oh, I see Dialog has a separate checkbox. Gah.
On Aug 28, 11:40 am, ken <[email protected]> wrote:
> Nothing is working, nothing is where its supposed to be...
>
> I just want to use the dialog() functionality. I found the demo
> @http://jqueryui.com/demos/dialog/
>
> For "dependencies", the only requirement looks to be "UI Core".
> Downloaded UI Core (plus about 1000 other files that I have no idea as
> to their purpose).
>
> No readme or anything, so I dig through and finally find ui.core.js.
> Link it into my test page. Try to run $(foo).dialog() and I get
> "object doesn't support this property or method". Console tells me the
> jQuery.ui exists though.
>
> Found the "getting started" page here:http://jqueryui.com/docs/Getting_Started
>
> Jumped to the section "After downloading: Intro to using jQuery UI".
> It suggests there should be an index.html in the root directory. There
> is not. Also suggests that there should be a CSS directory from the
> root, again this is missing.
>
> I found an index.html in a demos directory, although after opening the
> page in a browser I can clearly see that there are no demos included
> under Interactions, Widgets, and Effects. Links under "About jQuery
> UI" and "Theming", although looking like they should open in the
> middle framed area, actually open in a new tab (FF 3.5). I tried
> opening it in IE 8, but clicking a link first gave a $.datepicker
> error, then it somehow forward to the jQuery UI website. Nice demo?
> The page is completely broken and doesn't work in the latest releases
> of the 2 most popular browsers.
>
> I played with the theme thingy a bit more and then downloaded core
> again, and now there is a CSS directory.... still no index.html in the
> root, and still no functioning $().dialog().
>
> Getting frustrated, I opened ui.core.js in my editor, did a ctrl-f
> search for "dialog", and found no references.
>
> I honestly was just trying to test out what I thought was one of the
> more basic examples (no extra "widgets" or anything required), and not
> a single thing is like the documentation says and nothing is even
> close to working.
>
> Am I doing something fundamentally, egregiously...wrong? Or is this
> one of those projects where its every-man-for-himself-to-get-this-
> stuff-working? What gives?
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