After all my work over the weekend, I ran into this today on Ajaxian.com: *http://tinyurl.com/yrpuls
*Seems like its going to meet my needs almost perfectly so I just thought I'd share with you all in case it helps out anyone else. -- Dash -- David Dashifen Kees wrote: > So, one of the things I've always wanted to do was expand upon the > simplicity of the Lightbox Gone Wild! object that the coders at > www.particletree.com put together months ago. I used it on an > application I wrote to organize my own picture albums on my localhost > web server, but I had to hack it apart to get it to do the things I > wanted it to do. I looked at the Prototype Window class, thick box, > grey box, etc. and all of them didn't seem to be quite what I was > looking for. So, this afternoon I decided to try and write one myself. > I've gotten about 95% of the way completed (at least for the first go) > but I can't get the dialog, after it is shown, to disappear. > > Here's a pastie: http://pastie.caboo.se/49182 > Here's a demo: http://www.dashifen.com/.temp/ > > You can see at line #19 within the pastie that I'm trying to get > anything within the newly loaded div#dialog element which an action > attribute equal to "deactivate" and then capture click events to close > the dialog. If I change line #20 to include an anonymous function > (element.observe("click", function() { alert("hello world"); }); for > example), the anonymous function works fine. I suspect I'm still hazy > on the exact usage (and purpose) of the bindAsEventListener() method of > the Function object. > > Anyone got any ideas about how to get the darned things to close when > they're opened? > > Also, for what it's worth, I'm not even worrying about anything other > than Firefox at this point. The first step is to get it working. I'll > worry about getting working in other browsers as phase 2!! Also, FYI, > I'm using prototype.js version 1.5.1 release candidate 2. > > Thanks All, > -- Dash -- > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Spinoffs" 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/rubyonrails-spinoffs?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
