Davs Rants and Random Thoughts

Today I have released several new items..

First, I have updated my Effects widget (0.6) to include 8 new effects designed to be plugged into a YUI Panel/Overlay/Container. You can see them here.

Second, I would like to introduce YAHOO.Tools. This batch of tools has the following built in functions:

• makeTextObject
• makeChildren
• styleToCamel
• removeQuotes
• trim
• stripTags
• printf
• hasBRs
• convertBRs2NLs
• stringRepeat
• stringReverse
• setStyleString
• getSelection
• removeElement
• setCookie
• getCookie
• deleteCookie
• getBrowserEngine
• getBrowserAgent
• checkFlash
• setAttr
• create
• insertAfter
• inArray
• checkBoolean
• checkNumber

And lastly, I would like to introduce YAHOO.DHTMLForms, these you just have to see…

Enjoy

I skipped the .4 release & went straight to .5

Well, I have added some serious enhancements to the Effects. The Effects now support passing in an option called “delay”. This will cause the Effect to not execute immediately. Additionally I have added support for a Custom Event called onEffectComplete. Combining the two will allow for more customization (See the Batch Example Here).

I also updated the docs here.

Update: I have been asked several times, so I am going to try and build a complete package available for download. It will include the docs, source, minimized builds & the demo page.

I added 4 more effects to my widget.Effects addon.. The following effects have a new parameter called “bind”. So you can bind them to the other side of the effect.

• YAHOO.widgets.Effects.BlindRight()
• YAHOO.widgets.Effects.BlindLeft()
• YAHOO.widgets.Effects.BlindUp()
• YAHOO.widgets.Effects.BlindDown()

So now when you call: new YAHOO.widget.BlindRight(’el’, { bind: ‘right’ }); new YAHOO.widget.BlindLeft(’el’, { bind: ‘right’ }); new YAHOO.widget.BlindUp(’el’, { bind: ‘bottom’ }); new YAHOO.widget.BlindDown(’el’, { bind: ‘bottom’ }); You will get these: Enjoy

Since I posted an example on how to make a nested Drag & Drop list. I have received several emails requesting a Sortable Nested Drag and Drop list. So here it is.

Enjoy

Hey all –

I wrote an example that allows you to construct a JavaScript array of dates & text and display them on a calendar as Tooltips.

Here is where you can find it.

Enjoy

Update: I have updated it to support more than one month as well as dynamic tooltip creation..

I have smashed together a simple slideshow with the YUI tools. You can see it here.

The current version doesn’t handle image preloading (yet), but it’s a pretty kewl example of how to combine effects to get “flash” like animation transitions..

I love this logo.. Gotta have a shirt..