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MooTools 1.3 Cookbook

By : Jay L Johnston
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MooTools 1.3 Cookbook

By: Jay L Johnston

Overview of this book

MooTools is a JavaScript framework that abstracts the JavaScript language. JavaScript itself, complex in syntax, provides the tools to write a layer of content interaction for each different browser. MooTools abstracts those individual, browser-specific layers to allow cross-browser scripting in an easy-to-read and easy-to-remember syntax. Animation and interaction, once the domain of Flash, are being taken by storm by the MooTools JavaScript framework, which can cause size, shape, color, and opacity to transition smoothly. Discover how to use AJAX to bring data to today's web page users who demand interactivity without clunky page refreshes. When searching for animation and interactivity solutions that work, MooTools 1.3 Cookbook has individual, reusable code examples that get you running fast! MooTools 1.3 Cookbook readies programmers to animate, perform AJAX, and attach event listeners in a simple format where each section provides a clear and cross-browser compatible sketch of how to solve a problem, whether reading from beginning to finish or browsing directly to a particular recipe solution. MooTools 1.3 Cookbook provides instant solutions to MooTools problems – whatever you want to do with MooTools, this book will tell you how to do it. MooTools 1.3 Cookbook is presented in a progressive order that builds concepts and ideas, while simultaneously being a collection of powerful individual, standalone, recipe solutions.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
MooTools 1.3 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Making window widgets push other widgets around on a screen


Launching off our foundation from the previous recipe, we now get ready to have window widgets magically switch places. This will act like a game of musical chairs where when one widget moves into the place of a second, the second takes the place of the first. And unlike musical chairs, no widget loses and has to sit down until the next round.

How to do it...

The structure of the Drag.Move() object is the same. Added in this recipe is the functionality of the onEnter and onLeave events. Note how the hitters now have a class added upon entering and that class removed upon leaving to create a highlight effect. This tells the user they have dragged an item to a hittable zone.

$$('.widget').each(function(el) {
whereami[el.get('id')] = el.getCoordinates();
var widget_id = el.get('id');
new Drag.Move(widget_id,{
droppables: $$('.hitter'),
onStart: function(el) {
el.setStyle('opacity',.7);
},
onDrop: function(el,hitter) {
el.setStyle...