map keyboard keys with mootools - events

I am looking to make the enter key behave exactly like the tab key on a form.
I am stuck on the fireEvent section.
var inputs = $$('input, textarea');
$each(inputs,function(el,i) {
el.addEvent('keypress',function(e) {
if(e.key == 'enter') {
e.stop();
el.fireEvent('keypress','tab');
}
});
});
How do I fire a keypress event with a specified key? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

this will work but it relies on dom order and not tabindex
var inputs = $$('input,textarea');
inputs.each(function(el,i){
el.addEvent('keypress',function(e) {
if(e.key == 'enter'){
e.stop();
var next = inputs[i+1];
if (next){
next.focus();
}
else {
// inputs[0].focus(); or form.submit() etc.
}
}
});
});
additionally, textarea enter capture? why, it's multiline... anyway, to do it at keyboard level, look at Syn. https://github.com/bitovi/syn
the above will fail with hidden elements (you can filter) and disabled elements etc. you get the idea, though - focus(). not sure what it will do on input[type=radio|checkbox|range] etc.
p.s. your code won't work because .fireEvent() will only call the bound event handler, not actually create the event for you.

Take a look at the class keyboard (MooTools More).
It can fire individual events for keys and provides methodology to disable and enable the listeners assigned to a Keyboard instance.
The manual has some examples how to work with this class, here's just a simple example how I implemented it in a similar situation:
var myKeyEv1 = new Keyboard({
defaultEventType: 'keydown'
});
myKeyEv1.addEvents({
'shift+h': myApp.help() // <- calls a function opening a help screen
});
Regarding the enter key in your example, you have to return false somewhere to prevent the enter-event from firing. Check out this SO post for more details.

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Kendo Scheduler prevent editing/destruction of certain events

I've created a Kendo Scheduler that binds to a remote data source. The remote datasource is actually a combination of two separate data sources. This part is working okay.
Question is... is there any way to prevent certain events from being destroyed?
I've stopped other forms of editing by checking a certain field in the event's properties and calling e.preventDefault() on the edit, moveStart and resizeStart events if it should be read-only. This works fine, but I can't prevent deletes.
Any suggestions greatly appreciated.
Just capture the remove event and process it as you have with the edit, moveStart, and reviseStart events. You should see a remove event option off the kendo scheduler. I can see it and capture it in version 2013.3.1119.340.
I think better way is to prevent user from going to remove event in the first place. Handling the remove event still has its validity as you can delete event for example by pressing "Delete" key).
In example below I'm assuming event has custom property called category and events with category equal to "Holiday" can't be deleted.
remove: function(e)
{
var event = e.event;
if (event.category === "Holiday")
{
e.preventDefault();
e.stopPropagation();
}
},
dataBound: function(e)
{
var scheduler = e.sender;
$(".k-event").each(function() {
var uid = $(this).data("uid");
var event = scheduler.occurrenceByUid(uid);
if (event.category === "Holiday")
{
// use .k-event-delete,.k-resize-handle if you want to prevent also resizing
$(this).find(".k-event-delete").hide();
}
});
},
edit: function (e) {
var event = e.event;
if (event.category === "Holiday")
{
e.container.find(".k-scheduler-delete").hide();
}
}
FYI, you can do this...
#(Html.Kendo().Scheduler<ScheduledEventViewModel>()
.Name("scheduler")
.Editable(e => e.Confirmation(false))
)
which will deactivate the default confirmation prompt for the scheduler. Then you can do your own prompt on items you want.
There is also a
.Editable(e => e.Destroy(false))
that you can do to remove the X on the event window. This particular example would remove it for all of the events, but there might be a way to remove it for specific ones.

jQuery — trigger a live event only once per element on the page?

Here's the scenario
$("p").live('customEvent', function (event, chkSomething){
//this particular custom event works with live
if(chkSomething){
doStuff();
// BUT only per element
// So almost like a .one(), but on an elemental basis, and .live()?
}
})
Here's some background
The custom event is from a plugin called inview
The actual issue is here http://syndex.me
In a nutshell, new tumblr posts are being infnitely scrolled via
javascript hack (the only one out there for tumblr fyi.)
The inview plugin listens for new posts to come into the viewport, if the top of an image is shown, it makes it visible.
It's kinda working, but if you check your console at http://.syndex.me check how often the event is being fired
Maybe i'm also being to fussy and this is ok? Please let me know your professional opinion. but ideally i'd like it to stop doing something i dont need anymore.
Some things I've tried that did not work:
stopPropagation
.die();
Some solutions via S.O. didnt work either eg In jQuery, is there any way to only bind a click once? or Using .one() with .live() jQuery
I'm pretty surprised as to why such an option isnt out there yet. Surely the .one() event is also needed for future elements too? #justsayin
Thanks.
Add a class to the element when the event happens, and only have the event happen on elements that don't have that class.
$("p:not(.nolive)").live(event,function(){
$(this).addClass("nolive");
dostuff();
});
Edit: Example from comments:
$("p").live(event,function(){
var $this = $(this);
if ($this.data("live")) {
return;
}
$this.data("live",true);
doStuff();
});
This one works (see fiddle):
jQuery(function($) {
$("p").live('customEvent', function(event, chkSomething) {
//this particular custom event works with live
if (chkSomething) {
doStuff();
// BUT only per element
// So almost like a .one(), but on an elemental basis, and .live()?
$(this).bind('customEvent', false);
}
});
function doStuff() {
window.alert('ran dostuff');
};
$('#content').append('<p>Here is a test</p>');
$('p').trigger('customEvent', {one: true});
$('p').trigger('customEvent', {one: true});
$('p').trigger('customEvent', {one: true});
});
This should also work for your needs, although it's not as pretty :)
$("p").live('customEvent', function (event, chkSomething){
//this particular custom event works with live
if(chkSomething && $(this).data('customEventRanAlready') != 1){
doStuff();
// BUT only per element
// So almost like a .one(), but on an elemental basis, and .live()?
$(this).data('customEventRanAlready', 1);
}
})
Like Kevin mentioned, you can accomplish this by manipulating the CSS selectors, but you actually don't have to use :not(). Here's an alternative method:
// Use an attribute selector like so. This will only select elements
// that have 'theImage' as their ONLY class. Adding another class to them
// will effectively disable the repeating calls from live()
$('div[class=theImage]').live('inview',function(event, visible, visiblePartX, visiblePartY) {
if (visiblePartY=="top") {
$(this).animate({ opacity: 1 });
$(this).addClass('nolive');
console.log("look just how many times this is firing")
}
});
I used the actual code from your site. Hope that was okay.

Titanium Mobile: reference UI elements with an ID?

How do you keep track of your UI elements in Titanium? Say you have a window with a TableView that has some Switches (on/off) in it and you'd like to reference the changed switch onchange with a generic event listener. There's the property event.source, but you still don't really know what field of a form was just toggled, you just have a reference to the element. Is there a way to give the element an ID, as you would with a radiobutton in JavaScript?
Up to now, registered each form UI element in a dictionary, and saved all the values at once, looping through the dictionary and getting each object value. But now I'd like to do this onchange, and I can't find any other way to do it than create a specific callback function for each element (which I'd really rather not).
just assign and id to the element... all of these other solution CAN work, but they seem to be over kill for what you are asking for.
// create switch with id
var switcher0 = Ti.Ui.createSwitch({id:"switch1"});
then inside your event listener
myform.addEventListener('click', function(e){
var obj = e.source;
if ( obj.id == "switch1" ) {
// do some magic!!
}
});
A simple solution is to use a framework that helps you keep track of all your elements, which speeds up development quite a bit, as the project and app grows. I've built a framework of my own called Adamantium.js, which lets you use a syntax like jQuery to deal with your elements, based on ID and type selectors. In a coming release, it will also support for something like classes, that can be arbitrarily added or removed from an element, tracking of master/slave relationships and basic filter methods, to help you narrow your query. Most methods are chainable, so building apps with rich interaction is quick and simple.
A quick demo:
// Type selector, selects all switches
$(':Switch')
// Bind a callback to the change event on all switches
// This callback is also inherited by all new switch elements
$(':Switch').bind('change', function (e) {
alert(e.type + ' fired on ' + e.source.id + ', value = ' + e.value);
});
// Select by ID and trigger an event
$('#MyCustomSwitch').trigger('change', {
foo: 'bar'
});
Then there's a lot of other cool methods in the framework, that are all designed to speed up development and modeled after the familiar ways of jQuery, more about that in the original blog post.
I completely understand not wanting to write a listener to each one because that is very time consuming. I had the same problem that you did and solved it like so.
var switches = [];
function createSwitch(i) {
switches[i] = Ti.UI.createSwitch();
switches[i].addEventListener('change', function(e) {
Ti.API.info('switch '+i+' = '+e.value);
});
return switches[i];
}
for(i=0;i<rows.length;i++) {
row = Ti.UI.createTableViewRow();
row.add(createSwitch(i));
}
However keep in mind that this solution may not fit your needs as it did mine. For me it was good because each time I created a switch it added a listener to it dynamically then I could simply get the e.source.parent of the switch to interact with whatever I needed.
module Id just for the hold it's ID. When we have use id the call any another space just use . and use easily.
Try This
var but1 = Ti.Ui.createButton({title : 'Button', id:"1"});
window.addEventListener('click', function(e){
var obj = e.source;
if ( obj.id == "1" ) {
// do some magic!!
}
});
window.add(but1);
I, think this is supported for you.
how do you create your tableview and your switcher? usually i would define a eventListener function while creating the switcher.
// first switch
var switcher0 = Ti.Ui.createSwitch();
switch0.addEventListener('change',function(e){});
myTableViewRow.add(switch0);
myTableView.add(myTableViewRow);
// second switch
var switch1 = ..
so no generic event listener is needed.

Mootools: inject vs adopt

I want to dynamically add some preconfigured HTML-Elements in use of a 'click'-event with mootools.
So I can make it work with my basic knowledge, although it isn´t very nifty. I coded this so far...
This is my preconfigured element, with some text, a classname and some event, cause i wanna have events already added, when it´s inserted into my container:
var label = new Element('label', {
'text': 'Label',
'class': 'label',
'events': {
'click': function(el){
alert('click');
}
}
});
Here is my function, which adds the label-Element:
function addText(){
$('fb-buildit').addEvent('click', function(){
row.adopt(label, textinput, deletebtn);
$('the-form').adopt(row.clone());
row.empty();
/*
label.clone().inject($('the-form'));
textinput.inject($('the-form'));
deletebtn.inject($('the-form'));
*/
});
}
The second part which uses inject also works, but there, my click-Event, which fires the "alert('click')" works too. The method with adopt doesn´t add any event to my label Object, when its inserted in the dom.
Can anyone help me with this. I just wanna know why adobt ignores my "events" settings and inject doesn´t.
Thanks in advance.
(sorry for my english ^^)
you go label.clone().inject but row.adopt(label) and not row.adopt(label.clone()) -
either way. .clone() does not cloneEvents for you - you need to do that manually.
var myclone = label.clone();
myclone.cloneEvents(label);
row.adopt(label);
this is how it will work
as for why that is, events are stored in the Element storage - which is unique per element. mootools assigns a uid to each element, eg, label = 1, label.clone() -> 2, label.clone() -> 3 etc.
this goes to Storage[1] = { events: ... } and so forth. cloning an element makes for a new element.uid so events don't work unless you implicitly use .cloneEvents()
you are sometimes not doing .clone() which works because it takes the ORIGINAL element along with its storage and events.
suggestion consider looking into event delegation. you could do
formElement.addEvent("click:relay(label.myLabel)", function(e, el) {
alert("hi from "+ el.uid);
});
this means no matter how many new elements you add, as long as they are of type label and class myLabel and children of formElement, the click will always work as the event bubbles to the parent.

Programmatically change Tabs when using idTabs

I want to have the actual idtab button aswell as a link/button within the tab able to change tabs via JavaScript.
Is this possible if so how?
Thanks
after looking through the examples again I have re-used the bulk of it and I have come up with the following
function switchTab(ActiveTab) {
var set = $('.idtabs').html();
$("a", set).removeClass("selected")
.filter("[href='" + ActiveTab + "']", set).addClass("selected");
$.each($("a", set), function (key, value) {
$($(value).attr("href")).hide();
});
$(ActiveTab).show();}
I have just stumbled through your post after a google search. In case anyone else arrives here through the same way, I'll let an advice.
Instead of...
$("a", set).removeClass("selected")
...and...
$.each($("a", set), function (key, value) {
...one should use:
$("yourMenu#IdOrHTMLTag a")
It will prevent the code from calling jQuery's .hide() and .removeClass at all links of the page, which would raise an error.
You can achieve what you want just triggering the link's click event:
function switchTab(ActiveTab) {
$("a[href'"+ActiveTab+"']").click();
}

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