RE: [Rails-spinoffs] functions calling functions

2006-05-24 Thread Maninder, Singh
Ryan,   What's the non prototyp-ish way to handle this?   What if we don't want to use bind()?   Thanks in advance, Mandy. -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Ryan GahlSent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 10:28 AMTo: rails-spinoffs@li

[Rails-spinoffs] AJAX Request Queue Object

2006-05-24 Thread Maninder, Singh
Has anyone already made available an AJAX Request Queue Object? ___ Rails-spinoffs mailing list Rails-spinoffs@lists.rubyonrails.org http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails-spinoffs

Re: [Rails-spinoffs] prototype-ish subclassing

2006-05-24 Thread Peter Michaux
On 5/24/06, Jeremy Kitchen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: when using prototype and Class.create(), what's the preferred method of creating a subclass? In case you are interested in this topic in general, you may like to read this great tutorial. It is not Prototype.js specific but very intersting.

Re: [Rails-spinoffs] prototype-ish subclassing

2006-05-24 Thread Ryan Gahl
If there is functionality in the base class's constructor that, for instance, prepares the object instance (initializes an XHR object, etc..), or otherwise must execute, then use an instance. This is yet another "use what works for the situation" things... I use both methods frequently. I also use

Re: [Rails-spinoffs] functions calling functions

2006-05-24 Thread Ryan Gahl
Yup you're missing something fundamental... what's happening is a scope issue. Functions in _javascript_ are first class objects. That means (normally) from within a function the term "this" refers to the function itself... So in ajaxFetched you have...ajaxFetched: function(){alert(

[Rails-spinoffs] functions calling functions

2006-05-24 Thread Kev'n
I think I may be missing a fundamental concept I hope someone can help me with. I have functions that won't call other functions. Particularly after an Ajax request. In the following object the ajax request onComplete calls the ajaxFetched function successfully. ajaxFetched tries to call funct

[Rails-spinoffs] prototype-ish subclassing

2006-05-24 Thread Jeremy Kitchen
when using prototype and Class.create(), what's the preferred method of creating a subclass? say I have a real simple class: var Testing = Class.create(); Object.extend(Testing.prototype, { initialize: function() { ... }, ... }); would I subclass it as so? var SubClass = Clas

Re: [Rails-spinoffs] autocompleter competing with saved form data in firefox

2006-05-24 Thread Haldane, Sam
Perfect, thank you. Sam > Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 11:29:16 +0200 > From: "Danial Tzadeh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Rails-spinoffs] autocompleter competing with saved form > data in firefox > To: rails-spinoffs@lists.rubyonrails.org > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type:

Re: [Rails-spinoffs] newbie oo question

2006-05-24 Thread Jason Hummel
Thanks. I'm not actually trying to get a field value, but rather a JSON object, but I think your explanation is spot on. I'm trying to eval something that doesn't exist and it's breaking. Thanks a lot for the help. Jason ___ Rails-spinoffs mailing list

RE: [Rails-spinoffs] newbie oo question

2006-05-24 Thread Martinez, Andrew
I think your problem is this: * eval( this.name + 'Data' ) // I assume this.name+'Data' turns into the ID of an input element that should contain some data. If this.name is myObjectName then the above becomes: * eval( 'myObjectNameData' ) Which when eval'ed returns an anonymous string val

[Rails-spinoffs] newbie oo question

2006-05-24 Thread Jason Hummel
Hey everyone, I'm trying to create an object that will have some properties predefined, but will allow me to pass in properties to override those standard props if needed. I'm trying something like: var myObject = Class.create(); myObject.prototype = { initialize: function(element, opti

[Rails-spinoffs] Re: Sortable: Ajax not firing?

2006-05-24 Thread Josh on Rails
Got it. The example I was working from didn't need to fire at a server. One has to properly tag the 's to get the Serialize capability, which is apparently required to fire the Ajax request. It's a bit maddening that this produces no errors, or anything. Maybe Scriptaculous should throw an error if

[Rails-spinoffs] script.aculo.us add multiple slider values together

2006-05-24 Thread Thomas Lohbeck
Hy there I'm sucessfully use the scriptaculous sliders. I'm not a programmer at all and managed to set up the sliders on a page. Great work guys! I like to add diffrent slidervalues together and make an output of the sum. Something like slider 1: 23.4567 Slider 2: 10.123 Output: Sum=33.5797

Re: [Rails-spinoffs] Changing the height of LI elementstoachievesuchan effect?

2006-05-24 Thread Danial Tzadeh
It couldn't work better than this. Kudos! Andrew. Danial On 5/24/06, Martinez, Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <> Easy enough. Check out the new example. This version also avoids "jumpy" animations when you click while a previous effect is still going. And also dynamically sizes to the c

[Rails-spinoffs] Re: Using inline editor without requiring a URL

2006-05-24 Thread Eric Anderson
Tom Gregory wrote: An inline delete confirmation form would be better than the alert. Just SlideDown (or the effect of your choice) the delete confirmation directly above the trash can, and allow the revert to proceed. It's not modal, but it won't have the "drag mess," occurs in the area the

Re: [Rails-spinoffs] Re: Using inline editor without requiring a URL

2006-05-24 Thread Tom Gregory
An inline delete confirmation form would be better than the alert. Just SlideDown (or the effect of your choice) the delete confirmation directly above the trash can, and allow the revert to proceed. It's not modal, but it won't have the "drag mess," occurs in the area the user is already

Re: [Rails-spinoffs] enumerables problem?

2006-05-24 Thread Ryan Gahl
Very cool, good job guys! ___ Rails-spinoffs mailing list Rails-spinoffs@lists.rubyonrails.org http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails-spinoffs

RE: [Rails-spinoffs] Changing the height of LI elementstoachievesuchan effect?

2006-05-24 Thread Martinez, Andrew
<> Easy enough. Check out the new example. This version also avoids "jumpy" animations when you click while a previous effect is still going. And also dynamically sizes to the contents of the LI. Just make sure that you set the LI to have a style sheet value of overflow:hidden (added in my

RE: [Rails-spinoffs] enumerables problem?

2006-05-24 Thread Gregory Hill
Marco and I have been emailing about this and I finally found the fix, so here it is.  Feel free to pass it along to Sam, if he even responds to bug reports any more: In prototype.js, change line 998 From:     Element.remove(node);   To:     node.parentNode.removeChild(node);

[Rails-spinoffs] Sortable: Ajax not firing?

2006-05-24 Thread Josh on Rails
Using Rails to generate a sortable list, I get the draggable/sortable page elements, but Ajax never fires back the post-sorted list. (I've checked with IE & Firefox, the "save this order to the DB" controller hasn't been called.) The View:    Drag to sort.            <% @estimate.components.each do

[Rails-spinoffs] Re: Using inline editor without requiring a URL

2006-05-24 Thread Eric Anderson
Carlton Dickson wrote: I was wondering if anyone has implemented the inplace editor without the need for the URL. I have tried this but run into a problem in that the 'saving...' text in shown for ever and the label is no longer editable. Yes, I have a project I worked on to try to create a ed

RE: [Rails-spinoffs] enumerables problem?

2006-05-24 Thread Gregory Hill
I think the problem is the .bind(this).  You aren’t referencing ‘this’ in the function, what are you binding?  I’d say drop it and see if it fixes it.   Greg   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marco M. Jaeger Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 5:42 AM

Re: [Rails-spinoffs] Changing the height of LI elements toachievesuchan effect?

2006-05-24 Thread Danial Tzadeh
It works great. Thank you very much Andrew. However, only one minor point is left: normally I wouldn't know the OriginalHeight, as the contents are requested from the database. Is there a way to let the script find it out? something like height: auto ? Regards Danial On 5/23/06, Martinez, And

RE: [Rails-spinoffs] enumerables problem?

2006-05-24 Thread Marco M. Jaeger
I'll give that a try - thanks -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ryan Gahl Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 3:44 PM To: rails-spinoffs@lists.rubyonrails.org Subject: Re: [Rails-spinoffs] enumerables problem? Hi Marco! I've seen this before (na

Re: [Rails-spinoffs] enumerables problem?

2006-05-24 Thread Ryan Gahl
Hi Marco!I've seen this before (namely in your dialogs), and i simply hacked my way around it with a try/catch block with no content in the catch...try{Element.cleanWhitespace (el);}catch (e) {}I have no idea why this happens although I know I've seen several other people on the list report similar

Re: [Rails-spinoffs] Ajax.RssReader object

2006-05-24 Thread Robin Schuil
Hi Matt, Looks good for RSS2. My only concern is what the code may look like if you need to support RSS1 / RDF and ATOM ?I don't think it will become a mess; I wrote a php rss/atom parser before and it's not so hard to be compatible with both formats without having a huge chunk of conditio

Re: [Rails-spinoffs] Ajax.RssReader object

2006-05-24 Thread Matt Spendlove
Looks good for RSS2. My only concern is what the code may look like if you need to support RSS1 / RDF and ATOM ? It's probably a contentious area but it seems to me the cleanest way to do this would be to use a _javascript_ XSLT implementation (Google or Sarissa) to parse the specific RSS XM

Re: [Rails-spinoffs] enumerables problem?

2006-05-24 Thread Nicolas Terray
On 5/24/06, Marco M. Jaeger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I was wondering whether anybody could please tell me why this is causing an error in IE (works in Firefox): $A(container.getElementsByTagName('*')).each( function(el) { Element.cleanWhitespace(el); }.bind(this)); What would be an

Re: [Rails-spinoffs] Ajax.RssReader object

2006-05-24 Thread Claudio Gamboa
Why dont use this one?? http://www.pdvel.com/stuff/js/XML/ This cass was started by Greg and I changed something On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 10:29 +0200, Robin Schuil wrote: > Hi Matt, > > It is based on the RSS 2.0 specification > (http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss) and should be backward > com

[Rails-spinoffs] enumerables problem?

2006-05-24 Thread Marco M. Jaeger
  I was wondering whether anybody could please tell me why this is causing an error in IE (works in Firefox):   $A(container.getElementsByTagName('*')).each( function(el) {Element.cleanWhitespace(el);}.bind(this));   What would be an alternative of achieving the same?   Thank you  

Re: [Rails-spinoffs] autocompleter competing with saved form data in firefox

2006-05-24 Thread Danial Tzadeh
You can do it by: wrote: Hi all, I have used the sciptaculous Ajax autocompleter a few times now. A major problem I have at the moment is with a text field that has focus when a page loads. The text field has an autocompleter associated with it, but when the user starts typing, the firefox

[Rails-spinoffs] Using inline editor without requiring a URL

2006-05-24 Thread Carlton Dickson
Hi,I was wondering if anyone has implemented the inplace editor without the need for the URL. I have tried this but run into a problem in that the 'saving...' text in shown for ever and the label is no longer editable. Can I also confirm that my idea of the callback function is something that runs

Re: [Rails-spinoffs] Ajax.RssReader object

2006-05-24 Thread Robin Schuil
Hi Matt,It is based on the RSS 2.0 specification (http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss) and should be backward compatible with all previous versions. Currently it does not support Atom feeds, but that's on my todo list and will be added soon. Best,RobinOn 5/24/06, Matt Spendlove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Rails-spinoffs] Ajax.RssReader object

2006-05-24 Thread Matt Spendlove
What versions of RSS / Atom etc does it support ? Robin Schuil wrote: Hi all, I'm happy to announce that I've completed the first version of my Ajax.RssReader object. It needs some extra's, but the basic functionality is now available. You can download it from http://www.sayoutloud.com/_

[Rails-spinoffs] Ajax.RssReader object

2006-05-24 Thread Robin Schuil
Hi all,I'm happy to announce that I've completed the first version of my Ajax.RssReader object. It needs some extra's, but the basic functionality is now available. You can download it from http://www.sayoutloud.com/_javascript_s/rssreader.jsUsage:    function myCallbackFunction( rss ) {      aler