Item10235: create new jquerytextboxlist plugin

This plugin enhances the capabilities of jqtextboxlist2. -- TemiVarghese - 10 Jan 2011

There's already a textboxlist module part of the JQueryPlugin. I which sense would you like to extend it? Maybe it makes more sense to work on the same code instead of creating another plugin?

-- MichaelDaum - 10 Jan 2011

I like to add capabilities to sort the tags and to remember the selections of a user. I have already modified the code you worked on. Please find the attached draft documentation and code. -- TemiVarghese - 10 Jan 2011

Cool. Will look into it. I'd really like to fold it into the standard textboxlist widget. We need to make sure users are not overwhelmed by alternatives.

-- MichaelDaum - 11 Jan 2011

Modified your textboxlist code to suite my requirements. Please find the file 10235.txt containing "git diff" output. -- TemiVarghese - 12 Jan 2011

Excellent. What about the additional UI files? These are newer than the jquery UI files coming with JQueryPlugin itself. Do you really need the newer versions?

-- MichaelDaum - 12 Jan 2011

I do not think it uses any of the new features. You can ignore them. -- TemiVarghese - 13 Jan 2011

That was my first impression as well. I will try to reuse the js files already part of the plugin as far as possible.

Nother two points to look at is the use of foswiki.Prefs as well as getting/setting cookies. There are some js modules in there that might be just fine to do the job, so we can slim down the general footprint a bit.

-- MichaelDaum - 13 Jan 2011

Yes.. I modified the cookie setting in Jquery plugin. I am afraid you have an older version of textboxlist2plugin. please find the attached jquery plugin files.

Patch: http://translate.foswiki.org/pub/Tasks/Item10235/10235.txt

-- TemiVarghese - 13 Jan 2011

I have made some modifications and improved the documentation. Please find the patch of the latest version.

-- TemiVarghese - 08 Feb 2011

Hi Temi. I am still having problems with this patch. Can you modify it to make clear what the actual minimal change set is. Can you rework the patch not to drag in individual jquery-ui files. Instead add a dependency to all of jquery-ui. Otherwise we end up with multiple versions of jquery.ui.[mouse,sortable,widget] that are (a) loaded individually via the textboxlist widget and (b) loaded as part of some other component requiring jquery-ui.

Do you really require JavascriptFiles/foswikiPref? I'd prefer to use jquery.cookie.

You extended the meaning of the doSort from boolean to one of asc, desc, custom or false. That I understand. Now comes two other parameters sortable and sortableID. The latter doesn't seem to be documented. Reading the js code it might be required to test if two sortable textboxlist widgets on the same page work out, i.e. without having an explicit sortableID. The default value for it might require some random suffix to prevent an ID clash.

As I think about it: isn't doSort=custom more or less enabling client side sorting already? It seems as if the extra sortable parameter is kind of redundant?

-- MichaelDaum - 26 May 2011

No more feedback. Closing this initiative. Please reopen if you like to continue.

-- MichaelDaum - 12 Jun 2018

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• Item10235.diff: patch added on 8 feb, 2011