[jQuery] Re: IE 7 reaction time on corners

2007-09-13 Thread Mitchell Waite
It might be the way IE is prioritizing the threads of internal processing, and some other process slows down the corners. I've solved stuff like this by setting display: none to the containing div, then running a function to make display: block. -Original Message- From: jquery-en@googlegr

[jQuery] Not Blowing My Own Horn jQuery Super GUI Example

2007-08-27 Thread Mitchell Waite
Its all jQuery plugins. The Home tab gives the names and credits, and its not done yet. I think this is the best example of using jQuery in an interface, though I am sure a more experience programmer could do a better job. I think we would start a contest to see who can use the most number of jQuer

[jQuery] Re: Cycle Plugin

2007-08-26 Thread Mitchell Waite
Query] Re: Cycle Plugin Mitch, You can use the "before" callback to do interesting things like that. In fact I do something very similar on the callbacks example: http://www.malsup.com/jquery/cycle/int2.html Mike On 8/26/07, Mitchell Waite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >

[jQuery] Cycle Plugin

2007-08-26 Thread Mitchell Waite
I'm using the cycle plug in and I was wondering if anyone knew a way to access the file name and display it with the image. If this can't be done I have worked myself into a nice hole J Thanks Mitch

[jQuery] Re: Karl, cluetip questions: Select IE6 bug ETA, and incorporating JTIP?

2007-08-22 Thread Mitchell Waite
d no speed method call is necessary. By doing this, I was able to achieve the same effect as Cody's jTip while still maintaining all of the cool and extensive functionality available in clueTip. The best of both worlds. Rey... Mitchell Waite wrote: > Compared the mitch demo to the jTi

[jQuery] Re: Karl, cluetip questions: Select IE6 bug ETA, and incorporating JTIP?

2007-08-22 Thread Mitchell Waite
Karl Swedberg Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 6:22 PM To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com Subject: [jQuery] Re: Karl, cluetip questions: Select IE6 bug ETA, and incorporating JTIP? On Aug 22, 2007, at 5:07 PM, Mitchell Waite wrote: One last thing Karl. Side by side your cluetips take longer to a

[jQuery] Can I load HTML with jQuery code into another HTML/jQuery page?

2007-08-22 Thread Mitchell Waite
This might be really dumb but I have an HTML page with jQuery and css in it. I want to know if I can "load" this into another page into a container without creating problems with conflicting css. My reason for this is simple. I want to be able to build and test a page of HTML and jQuery th

[jQuery] Re: Karl, cluetip questions: Select IE6 bug ETA, and incorporating JTIP?

2007-08-22 Thread Mitchell Waite
One last thing Karl. Side by side your cluetips take longer to appear then jTips do. About 1/2 second slower on this rig but that is a critical period that should be fast. Again this is me, maybe others like them slow.

[jQuery] Re: Karl, cluetip questions: Select IE6 bug ETA, and incorporating JTIP?

2007-08-22 Thread Mitchell Waite
Karl I see what may be a weird bug in IE7. If I leave your example page, go do something in another window, when I come back to your page the tooltips will not work until I reload your page.

[jQuery] Re: Karl, cluetip questions: Select IE6 bug ETA, and incorporating JTIP?

2007-08-22 Thread Mitchell Waite
s so I can know where to focus my attention on improving this. thanks, --Karl _ Karl Swedberg www.englishrules.com www.learningjquery.com On Aug 22, 2007, at 3:00 PM, Mitchell Waite wrote: I like jTip for all the same reasons, I really like the arrow,

[jQuery] Re: Karl, cluetip questions: Select IE6 bug ETA, and incorporating JTIP?

2007-08-22 Thread Mitchell Waite
I like jTip for all the same reasons, I really like the arrow, and wish Karl's had it and I think it's faster than Karl's. But, and this is big one, there is some problem with IE7 in jTip that shifts the position of your tooltip to the right, so I had to drop it. -Original Message- From:

[jQuery] Re: jquery books

2007-08-22 Thread Mitchell Waite
As a publisher of computer books my favorites are oriented more for the beginner, which I believe is still the largest untapped market for jQuery books. CSS, DHTML & Ajax. Jason Teague. Peachpit's Visual Quick Start Guide. This guy knows how to write and makes a beautiful presentation of exampl

[jQuery] Re: divert click to an anchor

2007-08-21 Thread Mitchell Waite
Ok I see what you are saying. This all worries me about web 2.0. Browsers are so fragile and persnickety. -Original Message- From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Karl Rudd Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 10:11 PM To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com Subject:

[jQuery] Re: divert click to an anchor

2007-08-21 Thread Mitchell Waite
Does anyone know why there are so many ways to do this? From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Beppu Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 8:56 PM To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com Subject: [jQuery] Re: divert click to an anchor $('div.test').click(function(event

[jQuery] Re: Simulate foucs on any div, really get Firebug and use it

2007-08-20 Thread Mitchell Waite
Aaron I was about to ge the vertical scroll bar to appear but not with body { height: 100% } I had to use body ( height: 900px } Do you have a clue as to why 100% wont work? Here is the link again. http://www.whatbird.com/wwwroot/Components/Complete_Search_Tab.html You were right, the table

[jQuery] IE7 issue viewing API docs

2007-08-14 Thread Mitchell Waite
I've been meaning to get this off my chest. Almost every jQuery site I visit, including the official site, have problems displaying text in scrolling DIVs. The settings for "auto" seems to be different between Firefox and IE7. So many of the API examples in the official docs are clipped ver

[jQuery] Re: focus with DIVs

2007-08-14 Thread Mitchell Waite
ssage- From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephan Beal Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2007 4:05 PM To: jQuery (English) Subject: [jQuery] Re: focus with DIVs On Aug 15, 12:46 am, "Mitchell Waite" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a way to use

[jQuery] Re: focus with DIVs

2007-08-14 Thread Mitchell Waite
not), IE allows you to put a tabindex="" on a div which will put it in the queue to gain focus. It fires the event properly. Firefox doesn't seem to allow this. Glen On 8/14/07, Mitchell Waite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi gang Is there a way to use focus with a div rath

[jQuery] focus with DIVs

2007-08-14 Thread Mitchell Waite
Hi gang Is there a way to use focus with a div rather than just an input element? If there is not how would you handle it so when a container gains or losses focus some visual effect occurs (like its background becomes gray). Thanks Mitch

[jQuery] Tabs - missing close button

2007-08-13 Thread Mitchell Waite
Klaus I love your tabs plugin and I am really using it in a beautiful way. I was wondering - today's tabs in Firefox and IE7 come with close buttons in the upper right corner. Would it be possible to modify the css and graphics so that we could use close buttons? I would like to be able to add

[jQuery] Re: jQuery Zen Garden Interface

2007-08-08 Thread Mitchell Waite
I will look into that issue with FF on the Mac. Its so hard to keep up with all these different browsers. Appreciate your feedback. From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Erik Beeson Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 12:21 AM To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com Subjec

[jQuery] Re: jQuery Zen Garden Interface

2007-08-08 Thread Mitchell Waite
uldn't make the search input field work   maybe make the whole UI in a draggable, resizable window and you're one step further !   good job Mitchell!   Alex   _ From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mitchell Waite Sent: mercredi 8 aoű

[jQuery] Re: jQuery Zen Garden Interface

2007-08-08 Thread Mitchell Waite
your comments. - Richard On 8/8/07, Mitchell Waite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: http://www.whatbird.com/wwwroot/Components/Complete_Search_Tab.html I called this Zen Garden because I was thinking it would be cool if there was a number of jQuery examples that demonstrated how to use t

[jQuery] jQuery Zen Garden Interface

2007-08-07 Thread Mitchell Waite
http://www.whatbird.com/wwwroot/Components/Complete_Search_Tab.html I called this Zen Garden because I was thinking it would be cool if there was a number of jQuery examples that demonstrated how to use the various incredible plugins that are available. This interface is an example o

[jQuery] Re: how to disable a handler with a click

2007-08-07 Thread Mitchell Waite
Wow that sucker worked right out of the box! Very elegant. Imagine that in pure Javascript! -Original Message- From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mitchell Waite Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2007 1:07 PM To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com Subject: [jQuery] Re

[jQuery] Re: how to disable a handler with a click

2007-08-07 Thread Mitchell Waite
5:23 am, "Mitchell Waite" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a check box that I want to disable the sound in my app when its > checked and restore sounds when its unchecked. >

[jQuery] Re: how to disable a handler with a click

2007-08-07 Thread Mitchell Waite
handler with a click Hi Mitchell, link1 link2 $(document).ready(function(){ $(".sound_event").click(function(){ if ($("#sound_switch").attr("checked")) { execEventSound($(this).attr("rel")); } }) }); i hope this will help, ( the

[jQuery] how to disable a handler with a click

2007-08-06 Thread Mitchell Waite
I have a check box that I want to disable the sound in my app when its checked and restore sounds when its unchecked. The sounds in my app are created when the user clicks on a link that has a handler like this: onclick="execEventSound('../sounds/sound1.mp3')" I was thinking the easy w

[jQuery] Re: Fading element opacity problem using Interface FX!!!

2007-08-06 Thread Mitchell Waite
Is "hide" a legal keyword for opacity? -Original Message- From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nazgulled Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 11:25 AM To: jQuery (English) Subject: [jQuery] Fading element opacity problem using Interface FX!!! What's the probl

[jQuery] Re: Turning a checkbox on and off

2007-08-05 Thread Mitchell Waite
e whipped up a demo page for u... http://www.gmarwaha.com/jquery/jcarousellite/test/testCheckboxChecked.html follow the instructions there. Both the techniques i mentioned initially are working in all 4 major browsers. -GTG On 8/5/07, Mitchell Waite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

[jQuery] Re: Turning a checkbox on and off

2007-08-05 Thread Mitchell Waite
oglegroups.com Subject: [jQuery] Re: Turning a checkbox on and off I am not sure I follow. $('your_selector').attr('checked','checked'); does set a checkbox to checked. -Marshall Mitchell Waite wrote: I thought the same about checking a checkbox but "checked&quo

[jQuery] Re: Turning a checkbox on and off

2007-08-05 Thread Mitchell Waite
Sean Well if $(":checkbox").click() works can I say $(":this").click() to check the checkbox? Do you know of a good place to learn more about using ":" and all those other characters listed in the docs? Mitch PS How do you unclick? From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL

[jQuery] Re: Turning a checkbox on and off

2007-08-05 Thread Mitchell Waite
I thought the same about checking a checkbox but "checked" is not the right value, you have to use true and false. So like this: On $(checkbox).attr("checked", true); Off $(checkbox).attr("checked", false); I have no idea why you cant do $(checkbox).attr("checked", "checked");

[jQuery] Re: Jquery Vs. Prototype

2007-08-04 Thread Mitchell Waite
Ganeshji: Very nice story! I really enjoyed reading it. And learned what I already suspected. You just saved me a LOT of wasted time checking out those other frameworks. Mitch PS In some ways its unfortunate, not terrible, just too bad, that jQuery choose such a techie and obscure name

[jQuery] Re: Resig's Accordion Lite

2007-08-04 Thread Mitchell Waite
When I use your accordion in IE7 (Example #1) when you click on a head the entire accordion opens up then snaps to the new menu. In FF it just acts weird. So you might want to take another look at your example. -Original Message- From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

[jQuery] Re: Resig's Accordion Lite

2007-08-04 Thread Mitchell Waite
So will it be a big deal to modify the accordian after step is changed? -Original Message- From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Resig Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2007 7:08 PM To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com Subject: [jQuery] Re: Resig's Accordion Lite

[jQuery] Re: Resig's Accordion Lite

2007-08-04 Thread Mitchell Waite
Dan WOW THIS IS GREAT. We all owe you a six pack of Mic's. Do you know that of the 12 accordian plugins on Ajax Rain none come close to the simplicity of this puppy? I love that you got focus to work. And bring in the easing functionality is excellent. I can't wait to integrate this into my p

[jQuery] Resig's Accordion Lite

2007-08-03 Thread Mitchell Waite
Hi John I set up your menu so its as close to the one from Adobe as I could, given my meager knowledgebase. Adobe http://www.whatbird.com/wwwroot/Components/Accordion%20Menu.html Resig http://www.whatbird.com/wwwroot/Components/Accordion%20Menu_Resig.html There are two things miss

[jQuery] Re: Show all?

2007-08-02 Thread Mitchell Waite
Here is how I solved the problem without having to worry about sibs. http://www.whatbird.com/wwwroot/Components/Accordion%20Menu.html After the insights I got from Glen, I turned to Karl’s book Learning jQuery (I swear I don’t get a paid for this PR J). His first major example shows

[jQuery] Re: Show all?

2007-08-02 Thread Mitchell Waite
rking. What doesn't work right about it? Also, have you seen the accordion plugin? http://bassistance.de/jquery-plugins/jquery-plugin-accordion/ Glen On 8/2/07, Mitchell Waite < [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: That helps a lot Glen but I am stil

[jQuery] Re: Do you think jQuery's documentation is enought?

2007-08-02 Thread Mitchell Waite
One PS to my comment about the How Do I...that I tried to use. It uses an included JS. While its clever its not very educational, I would prefer that all the How Tos be pure jQuery IMO. -Original Message- From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mitchell

[jQuery] Re: Show all?

2007-08-02 Thread Mitchell Waite
an use :last to find the last one. $("tr:last").show() would show the last row found. Does that help? Glen On 8/2/07, Mitchell Waite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What I am looking for is a way to hide the last one of these that was clicked. I tried saving the object that was last us

[jQuery] Re: Do you think jQuery's documentation is enought?

2007-08-02 Thread Mitchell Waite
I love it. In fact it had the answer to the question I've been trying to figure out "How can you close all divs except one!" Can you add to the FAQ: How long before this FQ is done? :) You only have about 900 How do I's to go before it becomes useful on a large scale. I am not sure about the fo

[jQuery] Show all?

2007-08-02 Thread Mitchell Waite
What I am looking for is a way to hide the last one of these that was clicked. I tried saving the object that was last used in a var but that didnt work. I thought then maybe I could create some kind of "close all" that would close all the other layers but not the one we have clicked to show.

[jQuery] Re: Coder vs Designer?

2007-08-02 Thread Mitchell Waite
I do my original design in Photoshop, then brew it up in Dreamweaver using external style sheets, one per major functional area. Then I use jQuery with Dream to build the UI in pieces and get them working separately before combining. I keep all my images in one big folder. I try and uses s

[jQuery] Re: question for klaus

2007-08-02 Thread Mitchell Waite
This is a great idea - my entire focus has been on UI development work with jQuery. -Original Message- From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tane Piper Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 2:40 PM To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com Subject: [jQuery] Re: question

[jQuery] Re: Do you think jQuery's documentation is enought?

2007-08-02 Thread Mitchell Waite
This will work as a blog but it will be full of holes unless there is a standard format, variable naming, etc. Learningjquery.com is great and I read it, but I am thinking you need hundred's of How Tos for it to be useful and a very fast way for finding the one you need. I notice lots of p

[jQuery] Inserting text in a DIV

2007-08-02 Thread Mitchell Waite
Can you insert text directly into a div from jQuery or does it have to be an element like a table that is inside the div?

[jQuery] Re: Ken Burns effects using jQuery?

2007-08-02 Thread Mitchell Waite
The images move in jerky steps, not smooth like the mootools version. -Original Message- From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nicolas Hoizey Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 12:05 PM To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com Subject: [jQuery] Re: Ken Burns effects u

[jQuery] Re: Ken Burns effects using jQuery?

2007-08-02 Thread Mitchell Waite
Very nice in FF but no go in IE7. Too fast - slow down the effects speed so we can really see them. Is this plug in ready for prime time? -Original Message- From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nicolas Hoizey Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 10:40 AM To:

[jQuery] Re: disable Effect queue

2007-08-02 Thread Mitchell Waite
Use 'hover()'. -Original Message- From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of seedy Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 9:17 AM To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com Subject: [jQuery] Re: disable Effect queue I think the .animate() function will help you to combine eff

[jQuery] Re: jquery.flickr + reflection

2007-08-02 Thread Mitchell Waite
You have to leave room for the reflection image, but I wonder if there is a way to put that image in the background of a DIV so you could write over it with HTML. My guess now is that it's using display: none instead of hide and show. -Original Message- From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [m

[jQuery] Re: jquery.flickr + reflection

2007-08-02 Thread Mitchell Waite
Other than this issue with Flickr how do you like the Reflection plug in? it looks neat to me. I don't like that the reflection moves everything below it down. -Original Message- From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of b0bd0gz Sent: Thursday, August 02, 200

[jQuery] Re: Check this, if you've got the time

2007-08-02 Thread Mitchell Waite
Whats the big deal about AIR? I went to the labs to study it and its so overwhelming (does anything) that I kind of missed the whole point. From what I gathered its like an entire operating system. -Original Message- From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

[jQuery] Re: Do you think jQuery's documentation is enought?

2007-08-02 Thread Mitchell Waite
The documentation is excellent and one major reason I am here. As a publisher and writer of computer books, I think I know exactly what the best next step would be for improving the docs. Before I sold Waite Group Press to Simon and Schuster we had two very successful lines of language books B

[jQuery] FW: [jQuery] Re: Hover accordion (as on apple.com)

2007-08-01 Thread Mitchell Waite
John Very sweet! This is almost perfect except for one thing, I think is critical. Try tripling the number of items in the first menu. When you click menu1 and menu2 everything works fine, the height does not change. But when you click menu3 the bottom of the menu rises up and the height chang

[jQuery] Re: Is there a simple way?

2007-08-01 Thread Mitchell Waite
olor on p 72 to make that actually work would be cool. From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Karl Swedberg Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 9:03 AM To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com Subject: [jQuery] Re: Is there a simple way? On Aug 1, 2007, at 2:08 AM, Mitchel

[jQuery] Best (lightest) Accordian Menu PlugIn

2007-08-01 Thread Mitchell Waite
Is anyone aware of a good accordian plugin. I have been using the one from Adobe (SPRY) and while its very flexible, it takes a lot of JS and its slow when there are a lot of menu items. What happens to mine is when you first load the page the accordian appears completely expanded. See http:/

[jQuery] Is there a simple way?

2007-08-01 Thread Mitchell Waite
(I'm not sure this got though so excuse me if I am sending it a second time) Klaus this is FANTASTIC. Its way way way better than settimeout because the chained list of events is to easy to understand. I think your example at learningjquery is really neat but it's a little obscured by the other

[jQuery] Re: Is there a simple way?

2007-07-31 Thread Mitchell Waite
Klaus this is FANTASTIC. Its way way way better than settimeout because the chained list of events is to easy to understand. I think your example at learningjquery is really neat but it's a little obscured by the other neat trick of insert HTML right after a click via insertion. That in itself de

[jQuery] Re: [ANNOUNCE] New jQuery using Site: jingproject.com

2007-07-31 Thread Mitchell Waite
That was a funny video that showed how to use it, it had Mario music in the background while a guy with a nice voice showed how it worked. Its really a way to capture an image, get a jing link for it, paste that in your IM message box, and when your friend clicks on it he sees the image, or a vide

[jQuery] Is there a simple way?

2007-07-31 Thread Mitchell Waite
All I want to do when a user clicks on a div is have a graphic appear for a while, then fade away. All the jQuery and Interface Elements effects routines expect you to go from dark to light, or one extreme to another. There is no off-on-off. Everything happens at the same time. Let's say my

[jQuery] Re: jQuery Maps 1.3 released with Yahoo! Maps Support

2007-07-31 Thread Mitchell Waite
NP on the hosting, I am surprised it got by my blocker. On the maps plug-in, this puts the map in a div and sets up the controls for using it right? I've seen these cool sites that use yahoo or Google maps and let you put your bird observations on them with pins. But I have never understood how

[jQuery] Re: jQuery Maps 1.3 released with Yahoo! Maps Support

2007-07-31 Thread Mitchell Waite
When I first went to the link for the examples to this plug in an awful popup appeared along with a long audio speech from some guy telling me I could win a plasma TV. But the map works very well. In fact when I check my house they had a much more recent photo than Google has, one that showed

[jQuery] Re: Layout Panels?

2007-07-30 Thread Mitchell Waite
That ext is pretty cool, what is it exactly? Free? -Original Message- From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of voltron Sent: Monday, July 30, 2007 3:16 PM To: jQuery (English) Subject: [jQuery] Layout Panels? Hi! Are there any layout panels for Jquery? E

[jQuery] Re: ContextMenu hidden under dropdown lists

2007-07-30 Thread Mitchell Waite
Why don't you put the context menu in its own DIV and then hide it when the menu is hovered. -Original Message- From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of cafebonne Sent: Monday, July 30, 2007 5:52 PM To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com Subject: [jQuery] ContextMen

[jQuery] Re: Elements strip for horizontal scroller

2007-07-30 Thread Mitchell Waite
Are you describing something like this at the top of the apple mac store? http://www.apple.com/mac/ I'd love to know how to do that in jQuery as its both a continuous scroller AND a group scroller. Mitch -Original Message- From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On B

[jQuery] Re: "please wait"-box only if delayed response

2007-07-30 Thread Mitchell Waite
I had almost this exact same issue. I used one of the many animated spin cursor gifs on the net along with show, hide and setTimeOut. I thought about using the fade out but it's too CPU intensive compared to show and hide. -Original Message- From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL

[jQuery] Re: Anyway to kill a bunch of queued up mouse events

2007-07-30 Thread Mitchell Waite
Dan Do you have any impression of the CPU drag that comes with using hoverIntent? I am using the css approach and its 0 MIPS. -Original Message- From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan G. Switzer, II Sent: Monday, July 30, 2007 6:08 AM To: jquery-en@g

[jQuery] Re: Anyway to kill a bunch of queued up mouse events

2007-07-30 Thread Mitchell Waite
Dear Dan Thanks so much for that plugin tip, I will try it today. I did find that the while the built in hover function in jQuery works for buttons, the pure css approach using the background-image position approach works just as well and uses no JS. Plus the code is so much shorter. But there ar

[jQuery] good newsticker or rss ticker

2007-07-29 Thread Mitchell Waite
I'm looking for a good jQuery plugin that lets me display rss feed content from collection of sources. The ones in the plugin area are primitive. Thanks Mitch

[jQuery] Re: Mootools

2007-07-28 Thread Mitchell Waite
Thank you Ben that is a very good thread. Seems the major reasons why people pick jQuery as there framework over Mootools, and others, has to do with the super documentation, the community, support, the large number of plugins and of course a whole bunch of technical reasons about its prowess a

[jQuery] Mootools

2007-07-28 Thread Mitchell Waite
Can anyone tell me how this compares to jQuery, briefly? Mitch

[jQuery] Re: Anyway to kill a bunch of queued up mouse events

2007-07-28 Thread Mitchell Waite
las Hoizey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Ken Burns effects using jQuery? And then suddenly: 'Discussion subject changed to "Anyway to kill a bunch of queued up mouse events" by Mitchell Waite' Along with top-posting and failure to snip out chunks of text when replying

[jQuery] Re: Sliding an image into a box - Little animation

2007-07-28 Thread Mitchell Waite
You could use the Interface Elements plug-in and the effect SlideInRight. From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mario Moura Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2007 6:41 AM To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com Subject: [jQuery] Sliding an image into a box - Little animation

[jQuery] Re: Anyway to kill a bunch of queued up mouse events

2007-07-28 Thread Mitchell Waite
On Jul 28, 1:30 am, "Mitchell Waite" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have this small script that shows and hides a button when you mouse over a Mitchell, please, for the second time, DO NOT HIJACK THREADS!!! This is at least the 3rd time i've seen you do it in the past f

[jQuery] Re: Anyway to kill a bunch of queued up mouse events

2007-07-27 Thread Mitchell Waite
se one() to unbind the event handler but I am not smart enough to see how to do that. Mitch -Original Message- From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mitchell Waite Sent: Friday, July 27, 2007 4:31 PM To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com Subject: [jQuery] An

[jQuery] Re: Best Plug-in For "Mouse-over show larger image" function

2007-07-27 Thread Mitchell Waite
help, but, as a solution by itself, it would require users to view photos individually. I prefer to provide them a page full of thumbnails that they can quickly mouse-over and view the larger images. jTip seems to be a good solution, but every example uses AJAX. I prefer to load the page

[jQuery] Anyway to kill a bunch of queued up mouse events

2007-07-27 Thread Mitchell Waite
I have this small script that shows and hides a button when you mouse over a graphic. I added a fadeTo inside it so my button graphic would fade in and out nicely. However when you move the mouse in and out fast it queues up the fadeTo events and acts poortly. http://www.whatbird.com/wwwroot/3sta

[jQuery] Re: 3 state buttons - The Final Act - and a jQuery bug?

2007-07-27 Thread Mitchell Waite
That's a drag. The queuing up of events must be because of the 1/2 second fadeTo function inside a hover. http://www.whatbird.com/wwwroot/3statebutton_framed_4.html Do you know if there is a way a way to kill any queued up mouse events after the user does a mouse out? Here's what the critical

[jQuery] Re: Are there any particular ways to debug jQuery code?

2007-07-27 Thread Mitchell Waite
These look good http://encytemedia.com/blog/articles/2006/05/12/an-in-depth-look-at-the-future-of-javascript-debugging-with-firebug http://www.evotech.net/blog/2007/06/introduction-to-firebug/ -Original Message- From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mi

[jQuery] Re: Best Plug-in For "Mouse-over show larger image" function

2007-07-27 Thread Mitchell Waite
I have some JS code that disables right clicking all together and pops up a message, which is at least a good way to warn people. Try to right click on this beautiful to steal the art http://identify.whatbird.com/obj/877/portrait/Atlantic_Puffin.aspx Mitch -Original Message- From: jque

[jQuery] 3 state buttons - The Final Act - and a jQuery bug?

2007-07-27 Thread Mitchell Waite
I added the 3 state button to the final application I am working on. In doing so I learned a lot about jQuery, so if you are a beginner you might want to check this code out with view source. It shows a lot of different features of the scripting language. I am sure someone could see a way to ma

[jQuery] Re: [Off-Topic] CSS Combine Images

2007-07-26 Thread Mitchell Waite
I think this is a cool idea, but what is needed is an example so we can see how valuable it is. A nice example would show the slow way vs your sliced way and see how they compare. From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alexander Graef Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2

[jQuery] Re: Boggles the mind - mousevoer and mouseout together

2007-07-26 Thread Mitchell Waite
t work in the hover method. I didn't follow your example entirely, but it sounds like something like this is occurring. -- Josh - Original Message - From: Mitchell Waite <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 3:05 PM Subje

[jQuery] Boggles the mind - mousevoer and mouseout together

2007-07-26 Thread Mitchell Waite
Imagine this When a user moves the mouse over a certain div (mouseover) on your page you want to do some things 1. fadeOut a graphic in that div to 50% 2. Make a button in that div appear (show) 3. Manipulate the button's 3 states (my wonderful 3 state button gizmo) 4. When the user

[jQuery] Re: Are there any particular ways to debug jQuery code?

2007-07-26 Thread Mitchell Waite
sh - Original Message - From: "Mitchell Waite" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 1:13 PM Subject: [jQuery] Re: Are there any particular ways to debug jQuery code? > > I do have it and I have run it but I don't see where it can tell me what I

[jQuery] Re: Are there any particular ways to debug jQuery code?

2007-07-26 Thread Mitchell Waite
s.com Subject: [jQuery] Re: Are there any particular ways to debug jQuery code? > -Original Message- > From: Mitchell Waite [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > $("#nest").click(function() { > alert("got it"); >

[jQuery] Re: Are there any particular ways to debug jQuery code?

2007-07-26 Thread Mitchell Waite
7 10:44 AM To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com Subject: [jQuery] Re: Are there any particular ways to debug jQuery code? Mitch, fade() is not a function Try fadeTo, fadeIn, or fadeOut. Check out the api for more info http://jquery.com/api (under F) On 7/26/07, Mitchell Waite <[EMAIL PROT

[jQuery] Re: " vs '

2007-07-26 Thread Mitchell Waite
AM To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com Subject: [jQuery] Re: " vs ' On 7/26/07, Mitchell Waite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This going will make me sound really dumb but what is the difference between > using single quote versus double quotes in jQuery, e.g. Mitchell, th

[jQuery] Are there any particular ways to debug jQuery code?

2007-07-26 Thread Mitchell Waite
Noobie question 99 Are there any particular ways to debug jQuery code? I have a small handler $("#nest").click(function() { alert("got it"); $("#nest").fade("slow");

[jQuery] " vs '

2007-07-26 Thread Mitchell Waite
This going will make me sound really dumb but what is the difference between using single quote versus double quotes in jQuery, e.g. $('#spincursor').click(function() { $("#spinner").show(); }); Or $("#spincursor").click(function()

[jQuery] Re: Toggling an objects visiblty without show and hide

2007-07-25 Thread Mitchell Waite
dberg Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 7:53 PM To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com Subject: [jQuery] Re: Toggling an objects visiblty without show and hide On Jul 25, 2007, at 8:18 PM, Mitchell Waite wrote: Gosh the author speaks! Yes, I do. Usually, I speak too much. ;-) Having authored abo

[jQuery] Re: Toggling an objects visiblty without show and hide

2007-07-25 Thread Mitchell Waite
$("#normal").removeClass("hidden"); }); }); From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mitchell Waite Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 7:34 PM To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com Subject: [jQuery] Re: Toggling an obj

[jQuery] Re: Toggling an objects visiblty without show and hide

2007-07-25 Thread Mitchell Waite
er way to code the example. $("#showPic").hover(function() { $("#hover, #normal").addClass("hidden"); }, function() { $("#hover, #normal").removeClass("hidden"); }); -- Brandon Aaron On 7/25/07, Mitchell Waite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

[jQuery] Re: Toggling an objects visiblty without show and hide

2007-07-25 Thread Mitchell Waite
owser/#hoverFunctionFunction Here is the proper way to code the example. $("#showPic").hover(function() { $("#hover, #normal").addClass("hidden"); }, function() { $("#hover, #normal").removeClass("hidden"); }); -- Brandon Aaron On 7/25/07,

[jQuery] Re: Toggling an objects visiblty without show and hide

2007-07-25 Thread Mitchell Waite
Gosh the author speaks! Karl Having authored about 25 computer books on programming and published about 200 (www.mitchwaite.com), I find Learning jQuery a real treasure. The way you guys tell the store is very well thought out, and shows an immense understanding of the person coming to jQ

[jQuery] Re: Toggling an objects visiblty without show and hide

2007-07-25 Thread Mitchell Waite
Leave it to Michael to leave the most indelible mark. I now a see the subtle issues with "this" In fact I have a whole a new take on jQuery since listening to Michael about "this" and trying to get my tediously simple little toggle to work. It actually started in Javascript and was a lot more

[jQuery] Re: 3 state buttons - is there a best way

2007-07-25 Thread Mitchell Waite
M To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com Subject: [jQuery] Re: 3 state buttons - is there a best way Mitchell Waite wrote: > "Limits the artwork" in the sense the middle portion of all you images > must be a stretched background slice, so you can't reproduce all the > subtle a

[jQuery] Re: Toggling an objects visiblty without show and hide

2007-07-25 Thread Mitchell Waite
} else { >this.style.visibility = 'hidden'; >} > }; doesn't "this" here refer to the jquery object... I don't think jquery object has a style attribute, or does it? -GTG On 7/24/07, Stephan Beal <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:

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