Repost of:[Javascript] Adding an item to aselectlistfromanotherwindow
Robert Pollard
rpollard at apple.com
Thu Sep 25 19:55:05 CDT 2003
Cool! I should have know that but I haven't read that anywhere that I
remember. I've been doing HTML/JavaScript for 3 1/2 years.
Learn something new everyday!
Thanks,
Robert
On Thursday, September 25, 2003, at 05:50 PM, David Lovering wrote:
> 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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