i'm not familiar with 1.6.1.1 enough to give you any solid advice on code,
but some search through the mailing list should turn something up. Kangax
posted a code snippet earlier today that should get you started.
myForm.getInputs('checkbox').findAll(function(el) {
> return /selectedLine\[\d+\]\[\d+\]/.test(el.name);
> })
>
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 4:23 PM, greghauptmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> I think you might be right Brian. I probably have to brush up more on
> java-script. Are there any examples of what your suggesting in
> prototype/rails somewhere I could look at? Do you know what event
> handlers I should be looking to for:
> - monitoring when a use clicks in a cell (i.e. to trigger going into
> editable mode) &
> - leaves a cell (i.e. clicks somewhere else outside the cell)
>
> Can class name be used somehow can it? e.g. can you say: Listen for
> All Mouse Down events that occur in elements with class name XYZ? Not
> sure what you were getting at here exactly.
>
> thanks again
> Greg
>
> On Apr 17, 12:16 am, "Brian Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > those are the only ones i know about.
> >
> > if you don't want the buttons to show up then you should probably do
> > something along the lines of creating the table with the editable fields
> and
> > then looping through all of the inputs and adding an event watcher of
> onblur
> > that will check the field to see if it has changed and if it has submit
> the
> > changes -- which might actually be optional if you provide a save button
> and
> > rely on the 'jesus saves and so can you' methodology of relying on the
> user
> > to save their work.
> >
> > thats about the last bit i can offer, and actually, thinking about it,
> is
> > probably the simplest if you give the input fields a common class name,
> and
> > it wouldn't require any additional libraries etc
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 9:47 AM, greghauptmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > > thanks Brian - this one still pops up a sub-window to edit. I'm
> > > really after one along the lines of the Google Spreadsheet experience,
> > > or the ExtJS demo, where you edit directly in the cell area with no
> > > other dialog or OK/Cancel buttons coming up. Perhaps the YUI example
> > > is configurable though so I should have a look (and also try to find
> > > out if YUI is open source/free, etc)
> >
> > > I was actually thinking of some code that gives the most basic example
> > > of how to do this and then I could adapt myself. Most other ajax
> > > support I would need in the RoR environment would be covered by
> > > Prototype/Scriptaculus.
> >
> > > Any more suggestions for the most basic implementation of support for
> > > in-line editing of a table of data are welcome.
> >
> > > Regards
> > > Greg
> >
> > > On Apr 16, 11:26 pm, "Brian Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > since you don't like tableKit
> >
> > > > I'll offerhttp://
> > > developer.yahoo.com/yui/examples/datatable/dt_cellediting.htmlas my
> > > > last suggestion
> >
> > > > try not to be daunted by all of the code, once you start using some
> of
> > > the
> > > > YUI stuff the code gets easier to manage
> >
> > > > On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 9:22 AM, greghauptmann <
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > > > wrote:
> >
> > > > > Hi,
> >
> > > > > Any recommendations re a component/plugin/javascript library to
> give
> > > > > me an in-line editable table (spreadsheet like support), like
> google
> > > > > spreadsheets?
> >
> > > > > Tks
> >
>
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