Thanks much, Bryan.

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Bryan Larsen <[email protected]>wrote:

> This is an opportunity for anybody who wishes to find an easy way to
> contribute to Hobo.
>
> Wrapping a useful Javascript UI library with Hobo tags is easy and very
> useful to beginners.  I started such a task with Javascript-UI (
> http://cookbook.hobocentral.net/plugins/hobo-jquery).   I did the hard
> work and haven't completed the easy work of wrapping the rest of the tags.
> By building on Hobo-JQuery you would get delayed initialization (so the
> widgets would work inside of AJAX parts and hjq-input-many tags) as well as
> the ability to pass non-string data to the widget.
>
> Hobo-jQuery has some complicated stuff in it.   However, the datepicker
> stuff in hobo-jquery is trivial and can be used as an example for anybody
> who wants to add other widgets.
>
> But most Javascript libraries will work without delayed initialization and
> only take strings as configuration, so writing another plugin from scratch
> is easy.
>
> In the case of a toggle, the jQuery-UI accordion documentation basically
> says that this is not a toggle.   Toggle's are trivial, here's how to do
> them in plain jQuery.... :)
>
> Bryan
>
>
>
> On 10-06-16 08:50 PM, Matt Jones wrote:
>
>>
>> On Jun 16, 2010, at 7:47 AM, Ronbo wrote:
>>
>>  Thanks Owen,
>>>
>>> I was actually just thinking of a dumb div that has it's display
>>> attrib toggled via javascript. I thought hobo might provide a tag for
>>> this as a convenience, although it would not touch the back end at
>>> all.
>>>
>>
>> One of the designers I work with has been using the Easy Framework
>> (http://easyframework.com/) which has some nice canned JS stuff for
>> this. In particular, the "toggle" class might do what you want:
>>
>> http://easyframework.com/demo_showhide.php
>>
>> The only fussy thing I ran across was that it was painful to get a div
>> that displayed the *opposite* behavior (started out open but could be
>> closed). But it's not hard to write a little UJS-style stuff yourself
>> (in application.js, for instance) to grab appropriate tags and add a
>> simple toggle behavior.
>>
>> --Matt Jones
>>
>>
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