Repost of:[Javascript] Adding an item to a select listfromanotherwindow

[Robert Pollard]

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].val 
>>>>>> 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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