I believe the disconnect comes from the fact that the Dialog demo page doesn't reference itself in the dependencies. I looked at them, and it only listed 1 item -- UI Core -- and so that's all I downloaded. Usability problem, I guess....just confusing.
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? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jQuery UI" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-ui?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
