Hi Jerod WoW! Thanks for the great response. I will check out all the links that you gave me and read in the scriptaculous wiki. Thanks again! Peter
On 1/29/06, Jerod Venema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey Peter! > > Many of the questions you have are mixed into two areas. One is > script.aculo.us, one is prototype. Prototype is the foundation on which > script.aculo.us is built. > > You can find prototype documenation at > http://www.sergiopereira.com/articles/prototype.js.html > and > You can find script.aculo.us documentation at > http://wiki.script.aculo.us/scriptaculous/show/HomePage > > To answer your questions: > > > > 1) Looking in the index of my O'Reilly book covering JavaScript 1.5 > > [2] I cannot find any of these methods .detect(), .findAll(), > > .reject?, Element.childrenWithClassName, $(), $A() Object.extend. > > Where is a good reference to these things? Are they JavaScript 1.6? > > Again, these are all prototype functions ( > http://www.sergiopereira.com/articles/prototype.js.html) > > > 2) What is greedy refering to? > > http://wiki.script.aculo.us/scriptaculous/show/Droppables.add > > 3) (this.findElements(element, options) || []).each is a JavaScript > > idiom to avoid problems when findElements returns null? > > yes > > > 4) why unimplement tree? > > It's a work in progress. I believe the patch is currently being added to the > wiki, I'd assume will soon be in the main trunk. > > > 5) what is overlap? > > http://wiki.script.aculo.us/scriptaculous/show/Droppables.add > > > 6) what is dropon? > > > > 7) Why the underscore in Sortable._marker > > The underscore generally is used to indicate a private method. > > > 8) what are onEmptyHover and dropOnEmpty about? What is 'empty'? > > http://wiki.script.aculo.us/scriptaculous/show/Sortable.create > > > 9) what is the ghosting option about? > > Try using it. It just adds a "ghosted" version of whats being dragged. > > > Thanks! > > Peter > > > > [1] http://trac.vaillant.ca/store.rb > > [2] JavaScript The Definitive Guide, David Flanagan > > _______________________________________________ > > Rails-spinoffs mailing list > > Rails-spinoffs@lists.rubyonrails.org > > > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails-spinoffs > > > > > Again, check out the main documentation, it'll save you some headache if you > read up on the functionality before trying to use it. In particular, the > unit tests should be helpful. > > Regards, > Jerod > > _______________________________________________ > Rails-spinoffs mailing list > Rails-spinoffs@lists.rubyonrails.org > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails-spinoffs > > > _______________________________________________ Rails-spinoffs mailing list Rails-spinoffs@lists.rubyonrails.org http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails-spinoffs
