On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 7:12 AM, Anton <[email protected]>wrote:
> > Hi Richard! > > Thank you very much for your answer! > > I found the UI Reference (and for anybody who would have read your > answer the documentation would be VERY SATISFYING). What I missed was > exactly what you wrote here (how to start with UI). > > As I just started with jQuery UI a few hours ago I would suggest to: > > 1) Add a version to jQuery like it's done in jQuery UI and check in UI > if the minimum version is required. > > 2) The same could be done with the ThemeRoller > (CSS: .generated_for_jquery_ui ....) > > So you would just receie an error message if there is something wrong > with the versions. Would help getting answers of noobs like me ;) > > 3) I would think about putting an RC as default. At least there should > be a VERY BIG WARNING for noobs, because every developer I know would > not start with that version, but with a stable version (you produce > enough troubles at the beginning, so you don't need some from bugs - > as it seems to be the case here there are less bugs in the RC than in > many other stable versions). > > After I fixed the version conflict I just can say: > > jQuery is GREAT! jQuery UI is GREAT! The ThemeRoller is GREAT! It > works perfect (with the noConflict() call) with Prototype. So I can > use it in Rails (which is great too) and migrate slowly. > > I am only wondering why I missed that for so long :) > > So thank you again! Thanks a lot for the compliments :) In fact I've been thinking about what you said. It's truw that we don't have a true beginner tutorial "How to start". We're currently planning a tutorials section for the website, and we could link to such an tutorial from the actual home page. Thanks a lot for your input. Cheers, Paul > > > Best regards, > > Anton > > On 21 Jan., 01:44, "Richard D. Worth" <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Anton > > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi! > > > > > I just tried to find a document which explains how to use the jQuery > > > UI. Can't find any :( > > > > We've got documentation here > > > > http://docs.jquery.com/UI > > > > we're updating that over the next few days as we approach the 1.6 > release. > > So, please excuse us (and tell us) if you find something that doesn't > quite > > work. If you still need 1.5.3 docs, it's at urls like > > > > > http://docs.jquery.com/UI/API/1.5.3/Draggable/draggablehttp://docs.jquery.com/UI/API/1.5.3/Tabs/tabs > > > > > So I tried to download jQuery (lots of very good tutorials, great > > > concepts, seemst to work like a charm) in v1.3 (stable). > > > > > After that I downloaded jQuery UI (1.5.3 - stable) and tried the > > > datepicker. The JavaScript part is working, but it looked horrible. > > > Seems OK to me, I didn't downloaded a style jet :) > > > > The 1.5.3 release of jQuery UI (the latest stable release) is only > > compatible with jQuery 1.2.6. If you want to use jQuery 1.3 and UI > together, > > you'll have to try the latest preview release of UI, 1.6rc5, which you > can > > download here > > > > http://ui.jquery.com/(top-right <http://ui.jquery.com/%28top-right>link, > > contains all code, default theme, > > demo files) > > > > or here > > > > http://ui.jquery.com/download(if <http://ui.jquery.com/download%28if>you > > want a customized version containing > > only certain plugins) > > > > Notice there's a select box for which version you want, 1.5.3 or 1.6rc5. > > > > > > > > > Than I downloaded the "Start" theme from the ThemeRoller (seems to > > > work for all versions because I can't find any selection for a > > > specific version there). > > > > > As you can see: latest stable - latest stable - Start - I am very > > > carefully ;) > > > > Actually, ThemeRoller is set up right now to show off our latest wares :) > so > > by default it will give you a 1.6rc5 theme. If you want a 1.5.3 theme, > > there's a link for that at the bottom of the left nav. > > > > > > > > > I included the jquery and jquery-ui JavaScripts (can see them in > > > Firefox and the datepicker is working). > > > I included the ui.all.css and everything stays ugly as before :( > > > > > In FireBug I can see a lot of the .ui-datepicker-* stuff and if I edit > > > that I can see the difference on the screen. But I never see any .ui- > > > widget or .ui-state or .ui-icon styles when I hover over the elements > > > of the datepicker (and I can change there anything to anything without > > > getting any different result in the browser). > > > > > So: what am I missing? > > > > Make sure you link to the whole theme from ThemeRoller. The key files are > > > > ui.core.css > > ui.theme.css > > ui.{pluginname}.css > > > > where {pluginname} is each plugin you use. There's also a > ui.allplugins.css > > that @imports all the ui.{pluginname}.css files, and even better a > > ui.all.css file that @imports ui.core.css, ui.theme.css, > ui.allplugins.css. > > So it should be as simple as > > > > <link type="text/css" href="theme/ui.all.css" rel="stylesheet" /> > > > > From what you've described, I'd guess you just have a version conflict > > between the UI you downloaded and the theme you downloaded. This should > be a > > little clearer in a few days when 1.6 is finalized and is the latest > stable > > release. > > > > Do let us know how you make out. > > > > - Richard > > > -- Paul Bakaus UI Architect -- http://paulbakaus.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/paulbakaus --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jQuery UI" group. 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