Re: [Proto-Scripty] Help system

2013-06-09 Thread Phil Petree
Inserting has it's merits in that the centering method I used will not work if you have scrolled way down via the scroll bars so inserting the modalWindow will keep the help popup "near" the element from which the help was invoked... on the flip side, I've had issues with inserting new elements and

Re: [Proto-Scripty] Help system

2013-06-09 Thread Monty Munro
To get around the idea of having the embedded modalWindow in your html, you could build it and inject it on dom:loaded document.observe('dom:loaded', function () { var helpShell = String() + "Help" + ""; var mhw = new Element( 'div', { id : 'modalWindow', 'class' : 'modalHelpWin

Re: [Proto-Scripty] Help system

2013-06-09 Thread Phil Petree
Here's what I've come up with on the context sensitive help system (thanks to a few tips from Walter). I'm not crazy about the idea of having to include the hidden modalWindow on each page that uses the help but I found it much simpler than doing it all inline (maybe that's just my lacko skill set

Re: [Proto-Scripty] Help system

2013-06-04 Thread Jennifer Rullmann
Convey may fit your needs. It's a hosted web application which, when integrated in your app, figures out the right Help topics to show users based on their context. Here's a screenshot:

Re: [Proto-Scripty] Help system

2013-05-31 Thread Phil Petree
My reason for using ajax is three fold: 1. To do a real context sensitive help system would require more help text than would be feasible to integrate for each control, dictionary definition or decision point on each page. 2. By including just the we minimize the number of bytes tr

Re: [Proto-Scripty] Help system

2013-05-30 Thread Jason Westbrook
If you want to use tooltips or popovers you could use the PrototypeJS Twitter BootStrap tooltips or popovers https://github.com/jwestbrook/bootstrap-prototype Jason Westbrook | T: 313-799-3770 | jwestbr...@gmail.com On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 3:28 PM, Walter Lee Davis wrote: > I think you could m

Re: [Proto-Scripty] Help system

2013-05-30 Thread Walter Lee Davis
I think you could make the whole thing pretty simply. Rather than creating a separate handler (with each()) for each .help element, you could wrap the entire thing in one "on" handler, which you would not need to customize per page or worry about dom:loaded or anything: document.on('click', '.h

Re: [Proto-Scripty] Help system

2013-05-30 Thread Phil Petree
Certainly seems like it should be easy... I guess that's why I was kinda surprised to not see where anyone else had put one together... certainly was nothing on scripteka... could add some serious value to some sites. I'll play around with it on Sunday and see what I can cobble together... of cour

Re: [Proto-Scripty] Help system

2013-05-30 Thread Walter Lee Davis
This would be pretty easy to do. Prototype gives you lots of tools to make this possible, the bulk of this effort would probably go into the CSS to style your tooltips. On May 30, 2013, at 11:30 AM, Phil Petree wrote: > Has anyone developed an inline help system? Am I barking up the wrong tree