[Proto-Scripty] Re: Opinions appreciated on approach to Getters and Setters.

2009-03-10 Thread Tobie Langel
JavaScript let's you do proper encapsulation using closures like so: function Person(name) { this.setName = function(value) { name = value; } this.getName = function() { return name; } } There's a memory cost to this, though: every instance of the Person class will get it's own

[Proto-Scripty] Re: How to correct the following code?

2009-03-10 Thread ColinFine
On Mar 9, 1:15 pm, SamuelXiao foolsmart2...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry for my unclear explanation, the following is all my JavaScript code, // script01.js // obj = new Object(); obj.f1 = eventHandler; window.onload = obj.f1; window.onunload = function(){}; function eventHandler(){      

[Proto-Scripty] Re: I can't show a Dialog.confirm on the unload event - Please help!

2009-03-10 Thread Quleczka
There's another, less bullet-proof solution, which involves catching and stopping all click (an possibly keypress) events on links. But what about situation when someone type new url , press home button or one from favourites toolbar? Quleczka

[Proto-Scripty] Re: Hiding select option by value

2009-03-10 Thread Maarten
The first thing that hit my mind was: why would you want your SELECT element to behave that way? It just seems user unfriendly to me. You obviously want to present the user a bunch of options, and then disable certain options based on the user's selection. Now, if I imagine how this would work in

[Proto-Scripty] Re: I can't show a Dialog.confirm on the unload event - Please help!

2009-03-10 Thread T.J. Crowder
But what about situation when someone type new url , press home button or one from favourites toolbar? That's the You could always fallback on a regular alert for page refreshes and the like. bit. -- T.J. On Mar 10, 10:17 am, Quleczka qulec...@gazeta.pl wrote: There's another, less

[Proto-Scripty] Re: I can't show a Dialog.confirm on the unload event - Please help!

2009-03-10 Thread Tobie Langel
Quoting myself: You could always fallback on a regular alert for page refreshes and the like. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Prototype script.aculo.us group. To post to this group, send email to

[Proto-Scripty] Re: Hiding select option by value

2009-03-10 Thread david
Oups, let's do it again. Hi It, I'm agree with Maarten, but if you still like to hide some option, here is two way to do it: select id='mySelect' option id=mS1 value='1'One/option option id=mS2 class=oClass value='2'Two/option option id=mS3 value='3'Tree/option option id=mS4 class=oClass

[Proto-Scripty] Re: Draggable div only barely visible

2009-03-10 Thread david
Hi AI C, very difficult to imagine what could be your problem, if you are not sure that it's not opacity, verify with Firebug, and you will have the assurance that it is or not. btw, is it possible to have live testing? And do you know how to reproduce the error ?? -- david On 7 mar, 16:18, Al

[Proto-Scripty] Re: Editing Multiple Fields Simultaneously with InPlaceEditor

2009-03-10 Thread Darryl
Hi David, I would like to be able to click the edit button on one field, for example the title and then edit the title, description and other fields at the same time and then save them using a single 'Save' button and save all the fields. Many thanks, Darryl On Mar 10, 12:00 pm, david

[Proto-Scripty] Re: Opinions appreciated on approach to Getters and Setters.

2009-03-10 Thread webbear1000
Thanks for the replies guys. Sometimes JS's flexibility can catch me out. I guess there is no right or wrong way to do anything. Just things to consider. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Prototype

[Proto-Scripty] wrong context in function#bind

2009-03-10 Thread Mathieu
Hello, I just had a bug the morning, I still dont understand why it did not work I have two classes, I call Foo.select on element click. Foo.select call Bar.action When creating multiple Bar, the Bar.action call is always the last instanciated function... Ok that's not very clear, but imagin

[Proto-Scripty] Bring element to top onEnd (draggable)

2009-03-10 Thread Wouter Immerzeel
hey hi I have an element which I wat to be on top (zIndex) after drag. but if I try f.i new Draggable(mydiv,{onEnd: function() { $(mydiv).addClassName('whatever'); $(mydiv).setStyle({ zIndex:'52' });

[Proto-Scripty] Re: wrong context in function#bind

2009-03-10 Thread T.J. Crowder
Hi, Your options object is common to all instances of Foo, because you declared it that way: [snip] Foo = Class.create({ options: $H({'onSelect' : false}), initialize: function(element, options) { [snip] 'options', just like 'initialize', is

[Proto-Scripty] Re: forms - serialize and more

2009-03-10 Thread Bhudda Ben
Hi Quleczka All your suggestions look good and probably are great technique for getting this done. BUT, no matter what I do, no matter ghow I code this - and I have now tried at least a dozen different ways, I get the exact same problem - as soon as I address my form, I get an error - either

[Proto-Scripty] Re: $$ failing in FF3.1b3

2009-03-10 Thread kangax
On 10 Mar, 07:25, Jim Higson j...@wikizzle.org wrote: On Monday 09 March 2009 21:51:05 kangax wrote: It's possible that we'll introduce a custom `hasOwnProperty` in later revisions. Makes sense. if( !hasOwnProperty )     hasOwnProperty = function hasOwnProperty(){ ... };

[Proto-Scripty] Re: wrong context in function#bind

2009-03-10 Thread mathieu . weber
Thanx a lot, now it seems clear to me. I must confess that javascript and prototype are sometimes magical for me and it's not obvious to understand the underlying process of Class.Create ... Well thanx again. On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 2:33 PM, T.J. Crowder t...@crowdersoftware.comwrote: Hi,

[Proto-Scripty] Re: Prototype with SVG

2009-03-10 Thread marx
Right, when I run that script (in Firefox 3) The following alert boxes appear: HTML !!! toto2 toto2 test2 SVG !!! [object SVGAnimatedString] I then get _t.addClassName is not a function in the error console Debugging the script shows me that _t doesn't appear to have a prototype attribute.

[Proto-Scripty] Re: forms - serialize and more

2009-03-10 Thread Bhudda Ben
For the first time something is happening - though I am not sure what. Explorer is hanging up after giving a 'null' response for the alert below - but, firefox is not even hitting the alert and is processing normally, thogh it does not have the code to complete the AJAX request, just redirects

[Proto-Scripty] Drag and drop - using it with a form and a database

2009-03-10 Thread Harleycoder
Hi I am wondering how to make a drag and drop function actually pass values - I'm trying to build a photo gallery function where you have a bunch of photos you've uploaded and you are going to drag them to a (box) that represents a certain photo gallery. I'm a php coder and while I've used

[Proto-Scripty] firefox not firing keypress/keydown event unless focus is in textbox

2009-03-10 Thread chloraphil
Could someone please help me understand what is going on here? Note that I want the event to fire regardless of where focus is. The following works fine on IE6, IE7, and chrome. Not working on ff 3.0.7. htmlhead script src=prototype.js type=text/javascript /script script type=text/javascript

[Proto-Scripty] Re: firefox not firing keypress/keydown event unless focus is in textbox

2009-03-10 Thread T.J. Crowder
Hi, Observe document, rather than document.body: Event.observe(document, 'keydown', myEventHandler); That works with FF3, IE7, and Opera9 (all on Windows). HTH, -- T.J. Crowder tj / crowder software / com Independent Software Engineer, consulting services available On Mar 10, 2:30 pm,

[Proto-Scripty] Re: firefox not firing keypress/keydown event unless focus is in textbox

2009-03-10 Thread T.J. Crowder
Hi, Also works in Chrome. I noticed you mentioned it specifically, so... Haven't tried Safari. OT, you might also want to use a doctype in your page; Prototype essentially requires one, and it's good practice. -- T.J. :-) On Mar 10, 3:24 pm, T.J. Crowder t...@crowdersoftware.com wrote: Hi,

[Proto-Scripty] Re: $$ failing in FF3.1b3

2009-03-10 Thread Jim Higson
On Tuesday 10 March 2009 14:06:17 kangax wrote: It's possible that we'll introduce a custom `hasOwnProperty` in later revisions. Makes sense. if( !hasOwnProperty ) hasOwnProperty = function hasOwnProperty(){ ... }; I was thinking of something like: var

[Proto-Scripty] Re: How to correct the following code?

2009-03-10 Thread SamuelXiao
Hi, ColinFine, in my javascript code. The prev.js is to do links with URL preview. It is expected to show a preview box with linked content. However, in my testing, prev.js can work on its own, when it comes to using both script01.js and prev.js together, it doesn't work. My question is how

[Proto-Scripty] Re: Editing Multiple Fields Simultaneously with InPlaceEditor

2009-03-10 Thread Walter Lee Davis
I think the easiest way to do this will be to write your own editor view, and substitute that for a portion of your regular page using Ajax.Updater. That way you'll be able to customize it to the thing you're editing pretty directly. It's a long slog extending the InPlaceEditor to give it

[Proto-Scripty] Re: firefox not firing keypress/keydown event unless focus is in textbox

2009-03-10 Thread Walter Lee Davis
Prototype really really likes a standards-compliant page to work in -- that means you need a doctype because without one, you fail at the first line. This isn't for any reasons of standardista purity, the recommendation is there simply because when you mess with the DOM, you need to start

[Proto-Scripty] Re: $$ failing in FF3.1b3

2009-03-10 Thread kangax
On Mar 10, 11:30 am, Jim Higson j...@wikizzle.org wrote: On Tuesday 10 March 2009 14:06:17 kangax wrote: [...] Writing `hasOwnProperty.call(object, property)` is a bit tedious. Why not just encapsulate the `call`? Ah, yes, I imagined we'd be adding hasOwnProperty to Object.prototype to

[Proto-Scripty] Download page via prototype. with making all scripts on page. Help with code.

2009-03-10 Thread kevin
i need to enter to the page with making all scripts on it. so i need to download it via seeds (hhtp headers). and make all scripts. how can i do it? i thought via Ajax.Update i can do it. but something is wrong. i don't know what to do with parameters. because i need to download all page. script

[Proto-Scripty] Proposal for improving bind() + adding unbind() support

2009-03-10 Thread Robert Kieffer
As I suspect is common with many Prototype shops, over here at Zenbe.com, we're making HEAVY use of Function#bind(). We've been using a custom version of the bind() method for a while now, and I've recently added a couple enhancements that I'd like to get people's opinions on - especially that

[Proto-Scripty] Re: Proposal for improving bind() + adding unbind() support

2009-03-10 Thread Robert Kieffer
*dooh* sorry - shoulda just stuck that code in a Pastie, like so: http://pastie.org/412930 FWIW, I just collected some stats on our code to determine what %'age of cases are binding arguments .vs. just binding an object. It looks like it's ~98.5% (2170 of 2200 calls to bind pass a single object

[Proto-Scripty] Re: Proposal for improving bind() + adding unbind() support

2009-03-10 Thread Richard Quadling
2009/3/10 Robert Kieffer bro...@gmail.com: *dooh* sorry - shoulda just stuck that code in a Pastie, like so: http://pastie.org/412930 FWIW, I just collected some stats on our code to determine what %'age of cases are binding arguments .vs. just binding an object.  It looks like it's ~98.5%

[Proto-Scripty] Re: Proposal for improving bind() + adding unbind() support

2009-03-10 Thread T.J. Crowder
Hi, On the face of it, I like the thought of skipping the arguments prep in the no-args case, but have you done any profiling to be sure that it really has a measurable benefit? Same question on inlining the per- call arguments concatenation... Without a solid, measurable benefit, I'd avoid

[Proto-Scripty] Re: Proposal for improving bind() + adding unbind() support

2009-03-10 Thread kangax
On Mar 10, 12:41 pm, Robert Kieffer bro...@gmail.com wrote: [...] - bind() is so ubiquitous for us that performance is a top priority. Your version is still slower than it could be ; ) `$A`, `shift`, `apply` - all of those slow things down for no good reason. Take a look at

[Proto-Scripty] Re: Proposal for improving bind() + adding unbind() support

2009-03-10 Thread Tobie Langel
Robert, have you looked at the implementation in trunk ? I rewrote most of it not long ago after serious benchmarking and taking into consideration smart(er) memory management. This kind of discussion belongs ont the core mailing list BTW, to make sure no one misses it! Best, Tobie On Mar

[Proto-Scripty] Re: Proposal for improving bind() + adding unbind() support

2009-03-10 Thread Ryan Gahl
I won't speak to your .bind() mods as I've not reviewed them, but in general, for the majority case of simply binding the context of a function to an object in order to fix the this keyword within the function, it is ALWAYS just easier and MUCH MUCH faster to early bind to a variable outside the

[Proto-Scripty] Re: forms - serialize and more

2009-03-10 Thread Quleczka
Explorer is hanging up after giving a 'null' response for the alert below - but, firefox is not even hitting the alert and is processing normally, thogh it does not have the code to complete the AJAX request, just redirects to redo the original page If you don't use event.stop() for is just

[Proto-Scripty] Re: Drag and drop - using it with a form and a database

2009-03-10 Thread Diodeus
This should get you started (requires scriptaculous) table border=1 cellpadding=5 tr td valign=top ul id='fList' liApples/li liGrapes/li

[Proto-Scripty] Re: Proposal for improving bind() + adding unbind() support

2009-03-10 Thread T.J. Crowder
I do agree there are just times when .bind() is called for, but I am fairly certain the majority of people WAY overuse it. +1 to that, where you're defining the function inline. Where you're not, while this may be faster: var self = this; handler = function() {

[Proto-Scripty] Re: Proposal for improving bind() + adding unbind() support

2009-03-10 Thread Tobie Langel
Function.prototype.bind() is making it's way into ES 3.1. IT will be interesting to see it's performance once it's native. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Prototype script.aculo.us group. To post to

[Proto-Scripty] Re: Proposal for improving bind() + adding unbind() support

2009-03-10 Thread kangax
On Mar 10, 3:27 pm, T.J. Crowder t...@crowdersoftware.com wrote: I do agree there are just times when .bind() is called for, but I am fairly certain the majority of people WAY overuse it. +1 to that, where you're defining the function inline.  Where you're not, while this may be faster:  

[Proto-Scripty] Re: Proposal for improving bind() + adding unbind() support

2009-03-10 Thread Ryan Gahl
Kangax... 2) Non-bound event handler is faster at run time, as it accesses `onClick` from the proper object directly, but presumably consumes more memory (due to extra closure, created during function expression evaluation) There is no extra closure because .bind() creates a closure anyway

[Proto-Scripty] Re: Drag and drop - using it with a form and a database

2009-03-10 Thread Diodeus
Put the result in a hidden field and post the form, or make it a parameter in an Ajax call. The server side of things is no different than any regular form posting. On Mar 10, 5:13 pm, Marian Briones mbrio...@gmail.com wrote: I've got the drag and drop capability; it's getting it to talk to a

[Proto-Scripty] Re: Proposal for improving bind() + adding unbind() support

2009-03-10 Thread Ryan Gahl
I guess what I wanted to say is that a function created with Prototype's `bind` (internally) has a predictable closure - the one that's got formed when a function was declared. And it is declared by Prototype, inside a very slim scope (self-executing function, surrounding