Repost of:[Javascript] Adding an item to aselectlistfromanotherwindow

David Lovering dlovering at gazos.com
Thu Sep 25 19:50:21 CDT 2003 

You can change both the text and the background for every "option" entry
independantly.

-- Dave

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Pollard" <rpollard at apple.com>
To: "[JavaScript List]" <javascript at LaTech.edu>
Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 5:06 PM
Subject: Re: Repost of:[Javascript] Adding an item to
aselectlistfromanotherwindow


> Hey Dave,
>
> On Thursday, September 25, 2003, at 05:58 PM, David T. Lovering wrote:
>
> > A friendly suggestion -- using dashes is somewhat iffy when browsers
> > with various font definitions come into play.  I've had better success
> > simply writing a text entry containing the maximum number of M/W
> > characters possible into the element, and then
> > changing the font-color to be the same as the background (normally
> > white).
>
> How do you see the rest of the lines in the list if the foreground
> (text) is white?  I don't believe you can change the color of a single
> line in a select list can you?
>
> > Also, I use the "style" definition to force the width to be a fixed
> > number of pixels (way larger than essential), so that the thing won't
> > change shape on the screen when the
> > contents get tweaked.
>
> Does this work with most all recent browsers?  Do you have a
> source/sample that I can see how to make it work?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Robert
>
> >
> > -- Dave Lovering
> >
> > Robert Pollard wrote:
> >>
> >> Thanks for the research.  I have it working exactly as I want it.  I
> >> have a select list which upon opening the page has a series of dashes
> >> in the list as the first element.  These dashes mark the end of the
> >> list and keep the list a consistent width.  When I hit the add button
> >> it creates 2 new lines.  The first one is where the new selection of
> >> Days will go and the last one is used to copy the dashes to it so the
> >> dashes will always be the last item in the list.
> >>
> >> Thanks for all your time and effort,
> >>
> >> Robert
> >>
> >> On Thursday, September 25, 2003, at 04:11 PM, David Lovering wrote:
> >>
> >>> I do know that one generally has to scrub the entire list (storing
> >>> each
> >>> value/text pair into a hashed array as you go), and then add the new
> >>> items
> >>> in when you rebuild the select from scratch.  I never could make the
> >>> "add"
> >>> method work, and it doesn't conform to W3C anyway.
> >>>
> >>> Anyhow, it is something to consider.
> >>>
> >>> -- Dave Lovering
> >>>
> >>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>> From: "Robert Pollard" <rpollard at apple.com>
> >>> To: "[JavaScript List]" <javascript at LaTech.edu>
> >>> Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 1:00 PM
> >>> Subject: Re: Repost of:[Javascript] Adding an item to a select
> >>> listfromanotherwindow
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> I was able to make it work by adding the row before I open the other
> >>>> window.  Netscape is fine and works as expected.  I even tried using
> >>>> the add() method that Explorer supposedly uses and it still bombed.
> >>>> So
> >>>> what I do is add the row to the Select list before I open the new
> >>>> window to get the selection for the new element.  It works fine.
> >>>>
> >>>> It would be nice to know why Explorer bombs.  I tried to connect
> >>>> from
> >>>> my Windoze system and it won't even load the page correctly.  I
> >>>> would
> >>>> change the JavaScript code to show an alert and it wouldn't even
> >>>> show
> >>>> the alert as it did on the Mac.  Go figure!
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks for your time,
> >>>>
> >>>> Robert Pollard
> >>>>
> >>>> On Thursday, September 25, 2003, at 12:23 PM, David Lovering wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Interesting.  I'll have to think about this...
> >>>>>
> >>>>> -- Dave
> >>>>>
> >>>>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>>>> From: "Robert Pollard" <rpollard at apple.com>
> >>>>> To: "[JavaScript List]" <javascript at LaTech.edu>
> >>>>> Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 9:16 AM
> >>>>> Subject: Re: Repost of:[Javascript] Adding an item to a select list
> >>>>> fromanotherwindow
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> Hey David,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> This is what I am doing:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Select from list: Add a comma delimited list to the new line to
> >>>>>> this
> >>>>>> list:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> A <--select this one A,B,D
> >>>>>> B <--select this one
> >>>>>> C
> >>>>>> D <--and this one
> >>>>>> E
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Select the options again and my newly added element in the list in
> >>>>>> the
> >>>>>> source window looks like:
> >>>>>> A A,B,D
> >>>>>> B <--select this one B,D
> >>>>>> C
> >>>>>> D <--and this one
> >>>>>> E
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I'll allow the user to continue making these selections until they
> >>>>>> have
> >>>>>> all the patterns they need.  Each comma delimited list gets
> >>>>>> assigned
> >>>>>> to
> >>>>>> a new element in the source list.  This what we refer to as day
> >>>>>> patterns.  Each combination of letters represents what days will
> >>>>>> be
> >>>>>> used.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Thanks for your response and help.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I just discovered that Exploder 5.2 is blowing up but Netscape 7.0
> >>>>>> seems to work fine.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Thanks,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Robert
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> On Thursday, September 25, 2003, at 08:55 AM, David Lovering
> >>>>>> wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> I think you are getting bitten by the comma-delimited list here.
> >>>>>>> You
> >>>>>>> can't
> >>>>>>> stuff that into a single option.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> You are much better off by running a 'for loop' around the array
> >>>>>>> generated
> >>>>>>> by splitting the comma delimeted list, and doing each entry by
> >>>>>>> itself
> >>>>>>> with
> >>>>>>> the new Object declaration.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> That should work ok -- I do it all the time.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> -- Dave Lovering
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>>>>>> From: "Robert Pollard" <rpollard at apple.com>
> >>>>>>> To: <javascript at LaTech.edu>
> >>>>>>> Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 8:44 AM
> >>>>>>> Subject: Repost of:[Javascript] Adding an item to a select list
> >>>>>>> from
> >>>>>>> anotherwindow
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> I'm sorry I posted this with the typo.  I had to change the code
> >>>>>>>> after
> >>>>>>>> I copied into the email and didn't notice I replaced the text
> >>>>>>>> incorrectly.
> >>>>>>>> My code doesn't have 2 options[j] in it.  I just posted it
> >>>>>>>> incorrectly
> >>>>>>>> to the list.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> I apologize for wasting your time with a typo.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Here is the code as it is in my source:
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> var vFields = new Option(commaDelimitedList, "",false,false);
> >>>>>>>> var j =
> >>>>>>>> window.opener.document.forms[0].elements[aValue[i]].length;
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> It's good up until here.  This next line causes Explorer to
> >>>>>>>> unexpectedly quit.
> >>>>>>>> window.opener.document.forms[0].elements[aValue[i]].options[j] =
> >>>>>>>> vFields;
> >>>>>>>> This next line just returns a no object error.
> >>>>>>>> window.opener.document.forms[0].elements[aValue[i]].options[j].v
> >>>>>>>> al
> >>>>>>>> ue
> >>>>>>>>  =
> >>>>>>>> commaDelimitedList;
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Platform is Mac OS X 10.2.3
> >>>>>>>> Explorer: 5.2
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Any ideas why this wouldn't work?  Notice the second line
> >>>>>>>> actually
> >>>>>>>> returns a value.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Thanks for any insight,
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Robert Pollard
> >>>>>>>>
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