[jQuery] Re: Remembering settings

2007-04-19 Thread Trekmp
Thanks again for the suggestions. I'm using ASP with a MsSQL database, all of this i can use with no problem. After what you've said I think a server side system would work better this way people will always get the same setting whatever computer they are working on. I just have to figure out h

[jQuery] Re: Remembering settings

2007-04-18 Thread DaveG
How about using something like this: http://www.lalit.org/lab/jsoncookies/ It's not jQ based, but it may offer a good way to store/retrieve the amount of data you're looking at. ~ ~ Dave On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 15:52:48 -, Trekmp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks to both of you for your

[jQuery] Re: Remembering settings

2007-04-18 Thread Jake McGraw
Trekmp: For the amount of data you're talking about (depending on the number of on screen objects), perhaps some kind of server side storage would be appropriate? Also, this way you wouldn't need to develop some kind of "limited" syntax for storing all of the relevant information in a couple of

[jQuery] Re: Remembering settings

2007-04-18 Thread Toby Parent
Just offhand, I'd still use cookies, just in a slightly different way. The thing google does is, it saves the user account settings into a database, then saves a cookie with a session ID. the database keeps session IDs, linked to the user table, which can then link to a settings table. All of

[jQuery] Re: Remembering settings

2007-04-18 Thread Trekmp
Thanks to both of you for your advice. I'm not just wanting to store if an element is open/closed, I need to be able to do something like google where I can move objects around and remember where they are and what their status is (open/closed). I'm no javascript programmer so is it possible you

[jQuery] Re: Remembering settings

2007-04-17 Thread Benjamin Sterling
Piggie backing off of what Rafael said, you can take the params for each thing and put that in a cookie and when you do you $(document).ready, have a function that looks at the cookie and gets the params. Say you have a menu that the user wants hidden: menuParams:hidden; and when you come in to

[jQuery] Re: Remembering settings

2007-04-17 Thread Rafael Santos
Well, you could use $.cookie to set these settings when a user toggle a box and $.cookie to get these ones. http://www.stilbuero.de/2006/09/17/cookie-plugin-for-jquery/ 2007/4/17, Trekmp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Just discovered this library and its excellent and seems to be doing what I need at t