screwey viewbox results

[peteconway]

Send it to me. I'll help.
Pete

[madtowng]

Thanks to help from Pete Conway, I now realize that size does matter (at least for this stuff).
After reworking the controlbar to set the size of the header and the controlbar to 100%, it's
giving the results I wanted (see images below).

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[WayneH]

Are control bars becoming a general staple of most developers apps? I have dabbled a bit, but have not really pushed my main solution to mobile yet. Curious if many here are now as a matter of form design generally using them for web based desktop applications?

[Lance Gurd]

I use controlbars and viewboxes practically exclusively. Once you understand what you can do with them you just want to keep going

[peteconway]

The worst thing Alpha could have said when panel cards and control bars etc. were introduced was to add the word Mobile - I can't imagine developing in this day and age without the functionality - they make all applications - in all situations, ready for whatever device is going to use your application.

Pete

[madtowng]

On to more fun. I have this thinking that a user should never have to use the mouse wheel to scroll
through items more than twice. Searchability eliminates that need.
Sometimes, 2 parameters are needed.
To do this, I put 2 edit controls on a control bar.

Is there a method to programmatically get the values from those controls ?
Is there a method to programmatically set the focus to one edit cotnrol from another ?

The next obvious question would be is there a way to filter the data using [temp].state.filterA and [temp].state.filterB ?

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[madtowng]

I still need to do some testing, but this List of ControlBar Methods should answer my questions and then some.

[WayneH]

Well this post and replies inspired me to look further at controlbars. Watched Dions video on replacing tabbed_ui and I was pretty stunned at the flexibility and possibilities. Will be coding that direction for sure. Feel like the guy still walking around with the Miami vice era Motorola cell phone.

[madtowng]

You're saying this to a guy that prefers a desktop phone and pc over a cellphone and a tablet (at least when I'm inside).
I'm posting my progress here not only to get help, but it's an easy way to find the problems and solutions I encountered.
As an example, my test to set focus to a different control in the controlbar failed miserably using the code below.

var disCB = {dialog.Object}.getControl('MASTER_HEADER_CONTROLBAR');
var keypressed = event.keyCode
// alert(keypressed);
if(keypressed===13||keypressed==='Enter'){
//alert(this.data);
disCB.focus('channelsearch');
disCB.refresh();​

[madtowng]

This should be simple.
I have a control bar with 2 edit fields (Search For and What Channel).
I want to get from Search For to What Channel by pressing a key.
I don't care if it's the Enter key or the Tab button, but nothing I've
tried seems to do the trick.
Has anyone else run into this ?
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var disCB = {dialog.Object}.getControl('MASTER_HEADER_CONTROLBAR');
var keypressed = event.keyCode
// alert(keypressed);
if(keypressed===13||keypressed==='Enter'){
//alert(keypressed);
disCB.focus('channelsearch');
//disCB.refresh();
}​

[Lance Gurd]

This is something I have meaning to sort out for a while and have only just realised that it works, for me, in working and live preview but not on the server.

I have put my search action in the Done Item action of my edit field and as I say it works in the previews, not on the server. Could be time for a bug report!

[madtowng]

Try putting it in the keyup event. Use the code below to make it fire.

var keypressed = event.keyCode
// alert(keypressed);
if(keypressed===13||keypressed==='Enter'){
//alert(keypressed);
<your search code here>
//disCB.refresh();
}​​

[Lance Gurd]

Hi Gregg,

For some reason that works on the server as well, something strange that it works in the Done item action in live and working preview but not on the server.

I will try to get focus in another edit box on the controlbar now.

[Lance Gurd]

Curious and curiouser!

If I put the code to give focus to the second edit control in the keyup item action it works. If I include it in the code to check for the enter key it does not work. If I put my search code inside the enter check the search works but the focus item does not. If I put the focus code on a different button on the UX it works!

[madtowng]

Curious and curiouser!

If I put the code to give focus to the second edit control in the keyup item action it works. If I include it in the code to check for the enter key it does not work. If I put my search code inside the enter check the search works but the focus item does not. If I put the focus code on a different button on the UX it works!

The only place I have issues with focus is in a controlbar. I got the check for Enter code from Lee Vasic, and as you can tell, I love that option.
Your observation just gave me an idea for a wacky work-around. I'll give it a try.

Pete Conway and Lee Vasic use when I'm going to call the star-commands(until someone supplies a better term) to filter a viewbox, but my early
trials show that either I'm doing something wrong, or that it doesn't work with more than one [temp].state.<variableName>.