I must say I like your approach. I was looking for something similar for my website a week or so ago and rolled my own solution which is nowhere near as elegant. (code at http://www.josephbauser.net/javascripts/application.js example use at... well the main site. If you do check it out, please be gentile it's very much a work in progress ;)
I definitely over thought the solution (forgot about Element.update for one). Well done. :) Joe -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Fabian Lange Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 4:45 PM To: rails-spinoffs@lists.rubyonrails.org Subject: [Rails-spinoffs] script.aculo.us effect to update elements Hi, perhaps I am overseeing this but it seems that there is no easy way to set up a queue with two effects (fade and appear) and in between exchange the content. So I have an application with static layout and just want to animate the exchange of the content from the main div. So I wrote my own effect. The nice thing is that this is now queue able. Effect.Updater = Class.create(); Object.extend(Object.extend(Effect.Updater.prototype, Effect.Base.prototype), { initialize: function(element) { this.element = $(element); var options = Object.extend({ duration: 0.001, newContent: '' }, arguments[1] || {}); this.start(options); }, loop: function(timePos) { if(timePos >= this.startOn) { Element.update(this.element,this.options.newContent); this.cancel(); return; } } }); So I can now put this to the method I pass to onComplete of Ajax.Request function reload_content(ajax){ el = $('content'); new Effect.Fade(el,{queue:'front'}); new Effect.Updater(el,{newContent:ajax.responseText,queue:'end'}); new Effect.Appear(el,{queue:'end'}); } Is there a better way to accomplish this? If not, then I might contribute this when I figure out how the version control system works :) Br Fabian _______________________________________________ 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
