Archive for the 'Prototype' Category

Easy chained select lists using Zend Framework and Prototype

Building a set of select lists that are dependant of each other can be a daunting task, but for a simple two-level list - in that what you select from one drop-down will changing what’s displayed in one or more other drop-downs - is actually quite easy thanks to Zend Frameworks and Prototype, both of which support Json.

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Slider - part 2 - using a mouse wheel

Following on from the previous post, I thought it’d be nice to have the handle move on a mouse wheel. Looking around for mouse wheel integration, it seems that it’s only a short amount of code to update Prototype to use the mouse wheel. When it’s not in the core code, I don’t know, as it seems rather handy. The mouse wheel code is listed at the Prototype Event Extension article over at Ajaxian.

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Scriptaculous slider trick

Yesterday I was looking at the Scriptaculous library, in particular the slider bar. I had used it once before with some success, using a graphic for the track and gripper. But that’s was boring! What I wanted was to see the bar fill up with colour when it was slide. Something like this:

Slider demo

I hadn’t seen anything like this around (not saying it hasn’t been done, just that I hadn’t seen it!), so after a bit of playing I found out it was actually very easy to create. And this is how I did it…

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