I'd be glad to take a crack at this if I knew how ;) As an absolute newbie to hobo, rails and ruby, I'd absolutely need some hand holding to get started. But I'd appreciate the opportunity to learn and (hopefully) help out. Once I get the hang of it, moving on to other libraries should be fairly simple.
On Jun 17, 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 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Hobo Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hobousers?hl=en.
