How can I change the location of response.flash. It overlaps with my menu items...
Thank you, Janath On Thursday, November 5, 2009 1:16:41 PM UTC-6, Jonathan Lundell wrote: > > On Nov 5, 2009, at 8:52 AM, Thadeus Burgess wrote: > > Instead of putting a timer on response.flash, I moved its location to > another location on the site that does conflict with any text. > > > I like Gmail's approach to flash messages. They're not obtrusive, but > they're still prominent enough to be noticed. And because they're > relatively small, Google can reserve a portion of the page for them (which > is otherwise white space), with the result that showing a flash message > doesn't obscure other content, nor does it change the page layout. > > When I first registered at web2pyslices, I found the fade-out flash > somewhat unhelpful, in that I didn't notice it until it was too late. > > OTOH, web2pyslices has a dedicated area in the UI header for the flash > message, which is nice. > > Another thing I'd look at is to use color in the flash messages to > indicate the message category. Notices of failed operations should look > different from the routine "welcome back" message, IMO. > > > -Thadeus > > > > > On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 1:08 AM, Sebastian Brandt <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> Thnaks Russel for pointing that out. I think this is very nice. >> Of course the message will be unread if the user is distracted, but >> after the message is generated after user input in most cases I guess, >> that should be no problem in my opinion. >> >> Sebastian >> >> On 5 Nov., 05:43, mdipierro <[email protected]> wrote: >> > The problem with that is that if the user is distracted, the message >> > fades out before he/she can read it. >> > >> > On Nov 4, 4:48 pm, Russell <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > > Hi there, >> > >> > > A mild annoyance: Sometimes the response flash covers other text on >> > > the screen and, when you are doing lots of testing, you are >> > > continually clicking it to make it go away. >> > >> > > My suggestion is to replace web2py_ajax.html line 36: >> > >> > > jQuery('.flash').click(function() { jQuery(this).fadeOut('slow'); >> > > return false; }); >> > >> > > with: >> > >> > > jQuery('.flash').hide().fadeIn(2000).animate({opacity: 1.0}, >> > > 2000).animate({ opacity: 'hide' }, 2000); >> > >> > > This makes the response.flash fade in and then fade out. No clicking >> > > required. >> > >> > > Thanks >> > > Russell >> >> > > > > >
