Re: Re: [Rails-spinoffs] Ajax.Autocompleter with a twist

2006-08-14 Thread Horacio J . Peña
On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 06:33:28PM -0400, Colin Angevine wrote: > I took a look at the example on the Scriptaculous site and I'm still a > bit unclear. I'm already using the informal class, and it makes good > sense to use it again (with a display:none there) but I'm not sure how > I'll be able to

RE: [Rails-spinoffs] Parsing Querystring

2006-08-14 Thread Sam
> Just out of curiousity Sam, I notice that you are a frequent poster to > this list. Are you writing anything specific or just having fun with > javascript and prototype? Anything you can show off here? > I'm working on an environment to host e-learning course content. Unfortunately I can't send

Re: Re: [Rails-spinoffs] Ajax.Autocompleter with a twist

2006-08-14 Thread Colin Angevine
I took a look at the example on the Scriptaculous site and I'm still a bit unclear. I'm already using the informal class, and it makes good sense to use it again (with a display:none there) but I'm not sure how I'll be able to retrieve that id number once the user selects it. Just a bit more conte

RE: [Rails-spinoffs] Inspecting an object

2006-08-14 Thread Maninder, Singh
Sam, How about trying something like the following - for( var myVariable in window ) { document.write( myVariable + ' = ' + window[myVariable] + '' ); } The above code outputs all properties/methods of the window object. So, you could put in your object in place of "window"

[Rails-spinoffs] Grow/Shink block element

2006-08-14 Thread Leon Chevalier
Hi all, Is there any way to take a block element, grow it a percentage from its current size on mouseover and then shrink it back on mouseout? I'm looking to recreate the nav on this site http://www.dot-gap.com/ without using Flash. Cheers, Leon ___

Re: [Rails-spinoffs] Prototype $$ Question

2006-08-14 Thread Thomas Fuchs
I don't. :) For Ruby people it makes sure it's the same method, for others we can have an alias. :) Anyway, uniq (and uniq!) are members of the Array class[1], not the Enumerable class, so it probably should be added to arrays only. -Thomas [1] http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Array.

RE: [Rails-spinoffs] OK. I'm confused again.

2006-08-14 Thread William Attwood
It looks to me like it creates a new element of that classname. Oh, off-topic a little bit, if you guys are interested, a friend of mine made some tweaks to prototype, check out www.beauscott.com for info. --Will -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Beh

Re: [Rails-spinoffs] Prototype $$ Question

2006-08-14 Thread Andrew Kaspick
To be a tad picky, uniq is only part of Array, not Enumerable in Ruby. On 8/14/06, Hill, Greg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I agree with Ryan, uniq saves you two letters and makes you cringe every time you write or read it. Ruby should seriously fix that. Greg _

[Rails-spinoffs] Creating a "shelf" for drag and drop

2006-08-14 Thread Ben Kimball
Hi everyone. New to the list. I'm trying to implement a "shelf" with Scriptaculous. I have five boxes (divs) at the top of my page, to which I would like users to be able to drag and drop ghosts of various elements (also divs) from the body of the page. This operation should be a copy, not a m

[Rails-spinoffs] OK. I'm confused again.

2006-08-14 Thread Sam
Prototype.js can be humbling. Just when I think I've got a handle on how to read inside-out, I find something I've never seen before and can't get my head around. I am chasing down a bug in my code which uses Element.classNames, so I wandered off in prototype.js to see how classNames worked. Co

RE: [Rails-spinoffs] Prototype $$ Question

2006-08-14 Thread Hill, Greg
I agree with Ryan, uniq saves you two letters and makes you cringe every time you write or read it.  Ruby should seriously fix that.   Greg   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ryan Gahl Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 8:08 AM To: rails-spinoffs@lists

Re: [Rails-spinoffs] Prototype $$ Question

2006-08-14 Thread Thomas Fuchs
btw, there's also a ticket on this, #3810, but the trac is currently not in working order-- note that there's a new server on the way[1]. -Thomas [1] http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2006/8/10/new-dedicated-trac-server- on-the-way Am 14.08.2006 um 17:11 schrieb Jay Miller: I'd be concerned ab

Re: [Rails-spinoffs] Creating a "shelf" for drag and drop

2006-08-14 Thread Ben Kimball
Mostly there! I had a few "lightbulb" moments, and some of my hackish code seemed to work. I wanted a draggable which would revert when it didn't hit a droppable, and which would "snap" into place as a child of the droppable if it did. Mr. Ben Kimball //

Re: [Rails-spinoffs] Prototype $$ Question

2006-08-14 Thread Ryan Gahl
BUT, wait just a second Thomas :-)Remember a lot of us aren't Ruby-jockies... keep the function names _descriptive_ please :-) "unique" is better than uniq IMHOOn 8/14/06, Thomas Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: That method should be named "uniq" (to match the ruby enumerables, whichPrototype heav

Re: [Rails-spinoffs] Sortable callback, when dragging starts/stops

2006-08-14 Thread Ryan Gahl
Hi Tim... I'm sorry that I'm not replying to the actual topic, but could you please use "reply-to" in your email program so you don't break the threading... When I joined the list I had my own etiquette issues which others politely corrected for me (right Jeremy?)... so don't feel like I'm singling

RE: [Rails-spinoffs] Inspecting an object

2006-08-14 Thread Maninder, Singh
Sam,   How about trying something like the following -     for( var myVariable in window ) {    document.write( myVariable + ' = ' + window[myVariable] + '' );  }   The above code outputs all properties/methods of the window object.   So, you could put in your object in place

Re: [Rails-spinoffs] Inspecting an object

2006-08-14 Thread Brandon Aaron
Not sure if this is what you are looking for or not but I've been using this Logger http://gleepglop.com/javascripts/logger/ with a fair amount of success. It doesn't format that well in Safari and doesn't position correctly at first in IE but getting past that it works great. It has an inspect fu

Re: [Rails-spinoffs] Sortable callback, when dragging starts/stops

2006-08-14 Thread Tim Bellinghausen
Hi, On 08/14/2006, Vasilis Dourdounis wrote: > I'm not sure though the following is the best way to solve it, but > does exactly what you describe. yes, your solution gives me the information I need, but now I am wondering why the onStart and onStop handlers get called for every item of the sorta

RE: [Rails-spinoffs] XML Question

2006-08-14 Thread Sam
Title: Message After reading the replies to Dean's article http://dean.edwards.name/weblog/2006/04/easy-xml/   it turns out that IE does support requestXML.documentElement , at least, Dean found that it did work after a while, but he doesn't explain what changed.   To my complete amazement, it

Re: [Rails-spinoffs] Inspecting an object

2006-08-14 Thread Ryan Gahl
Short of finding a full debugging tool for IE (VS.NET or VWD supply this but may not work well for your project) or creating your own robust object inspector, I'd say simply serializing your object like that in JSON is about the quickest way to get the debug info you really need. On 8/14/06, Sam <[

RE: [Rails-spinoffs] XML Question

2006-08-14 Thread Hill, Greg
Title: Message I’ve always been able to get the documentElement in IE, but I’ve always used text/xml, so maybe that is the key.   Greg   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bauser, Joseph (Joe) Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 8:25 AM To: rails-spinoffs

Re: [Rails-spinoffs] Re: Ajax.Autocompleter with a twist

2006-08-14 Thread Colin Angevine
Tommy, Thanks for getting back to me so quickly. Overriding the method in controls.js seems like an effective approach, but after looking through the JavaScript for almost an hour I'm having a hard time figuring out how I should go about doing this. A few questions: -Which method should I be ove

Re: [Rails-spinoffs] Ajax.Autocompleter with a twist

2006-08-14 Thread Michael Peters
Colin Angevine wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm hoping to use the Ajax.Autocompleter to help users send private > messages to other users on my site. As the user types in the name of > another user, Ajax.Autocompleter steps in and offers a few relevant > options to help them along. Once they find the

[Rails-spinoffs] Inspecting an object

2006-08-14 Thread Sam
I have code and objects which work great in Firefox, and blow up in IE.  I don't have an object inspector in IE comparable to Firefox's Firebug and am contemplating finding a function call to layout an object in text format so I could read it from my own debug console.   I'm considering usi

RE: [Rails-spinoffs] Shorthand for "IN"

2006-08-14 Thread Ken Snyder
You can also us the member function for arrays: function myFunc(param1) { if ([2,3,4,5,6].member(param1)) { // is param1 a member of the array? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brandon Aaron Sent: Sunday, August 13, 2006 8:51 PM To: r

Re: [Rails-spinoffs] Prototype $$ Question

2006-08-14 Thread Jay Miller
I'd be concerned about the extreme lack of efficiency with that implementation.  The algorithm is exponential, and worse than that, in one of the most common cases does no work at all despite taking so much time.  I wouldn't use it in the library directly. On 8/14/06, Thomas Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [Rails-spinoffs] XML Question

2006-08-14 Thread Bauser, Joseph (Joe)
Title: Message I believe you have to use the getAttribute() method when navigating XML to get the attribute values.   I've heard rumors that you can use documentElement in IE as long as your document mime type is set to 'text/xml' for the XML you're retrieving. But I don't have an XML sourc

Re: [Rails-spinoffs] Sortable callback, when dragging starts/stops

2006-08-14 Thread Vasilis Dourdounis
I had a similar issue.I'm not sure though the following is the best way to solve it, but does exactly what you describe.        var MyStartEndObserver = Class.create();        MyStartEndObserver.prototype = {          initialize:

Re: [Rails-spinoffs] Prototype $$ Question

2006-08-14 Thread Thomas Fuchs
That method should be named "uniq" (to match the ruby enumerables, which Prototype heavily borrows from), and should be added to the Prototype enumerables-- seems like a nice extension. :) -Thomas Am 14.08.2006 um 00:06 schrieb Martin Ström: And the little more elegant, prototypish way ;) Obj

Re: [Rails-spinoffs] Parsing Querystring

2006-08-14 Thread Eric Harrison
No problem. Seth mentioned in a followup post that it needed to be a 'recentish' version of prototype, but I just checked 1.4 provided on http://prototype.conio.net and found it there as well. Anyone using anything less than 1.4 deserves the pain of that choice... ;) Just out of curiousity Sam, I

[Rails-spinoffs] Re: Ajax.Autocompleter with a twist

2006-08-14 Thread Tommy Skaue
ColinI've sort of done this with a Local.Autocompleter (show text and hide ID, submit ID when item is selected).In order to do this you need to override the methods that write the resultdiv and the method that run when an item is selected. You can override any method of the Ajax.Autocompleter by si