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Why is the Item Position messed up after override?

The Situation:
My Script creates a weekplanner with the masterpage as template.
What's happening in the script is:
Create Page
Apply Masterpage
Override each item
Change content of each item
do this for the whole dates-array length
The Problem:
The position of the masterPageItems after overriding gets messed up.
I've made two screenshots as demonstration.
Now the real weirdness about this is, that it gets messed up on a "custom-size" document, but it doesn't get messed up on A4-Format...
I've already tried to restore the geometricBounds of each item after overriding it, but this doesnt seem to work either...
Do you have any idea what could be causing this behaviour?
The masterpage: http://i.imgur.com/T0ApzZj.png?1
Messed up after overriding: http://i.imgur.com/Lx6rZup.png?1
EDIT:
As proof that restoring the geometricBounds doesn't work, I did the following:
function OverrideMasterItems(currPage) {
var allItems = currPage.masterPageItems;
var itemPos;
for(var i=0;i<allItems.length;i++){
try{
itemPos = allItems[i].geometricBounds;
allItems[i].override(currPage);
allItems[i].geometricBounds = itemPos;
$.writeln("Original itemPos: " + itemPos);
$.writeln("New itemPos: " + allItems[i].geometricBounds);
if(itemPos == allItems[i].geometricBounds) {
$.writeln("same position");
}
}
catch(e){}
}
}
As you see I assign the items original geometric bounds again and in the console it says that it's the same value - but it looks like in the screenshots. Also it doesn't write "same position" - which means the if-statement isn't true...

I solved it! For future reference:
It wasn't a programming bug, but some awkward InDesign "Bug(?!)" that lead to this weird behaviour:
I copied the elements of the Masterpage from a different document, that had different dimensions, and I just resized the textfields to fit the new format.
That's what caused the behaviour - it seems like the textfields still have some information from the other document I got it from and that this information wasn't removable/editable.
Because even deleting the paragraph styles etc. didn't change the weird behaviour...
As I'm pretty new to InDesign scripting I don't know if this a common thing you guys know about, but this gave me headaches... ;)
EDIT 1: I didn't solve it! Still not working sometimes!
Okay, it's still happening, and I just don't understand why... As the script executes the "override" on an item, the item gets repositioned to a completely wrong position...

Combining jQuery libraries: realistic-typewriter.js and waypoint.js

I am currently designing a website for a university project based around the open source project. My website is based around an infinite scroll layout, the idea is for each section to have a terminal that looks like the command line and to have the text print to these screens.
I have implemented realistic-typewriter.js (https://github.com/fardjad/realistic-typewriter.js) for the self-typing text. To have the animations triggered at pre-defined moments (when the user is at that section of the page) I have been told to use waypoint.js (https://github.com/imakewebthings/jquery-waypoints)
Now my problem is implementing the 2 together.
Typewriter.js is implemented something like this.
var typewriter = require('typewriter');
var twSpan = document.getElementById('typewriter');
var tw = typewriter(targetDomElement).withAccuracy(90)
.withMinimumSpeed(5)
.withMaximumSpeed(10)
.build();
tw.clear()
.type('TEXT GOES IN HERE')
});
What I don't understand here is the syntax of the variables at the start, it seems a bit convulted to my amateur eye.
The tw.clear() line - I assume the tw is the variable and the .clear does what?
Now the waypoint library - I was previously using this fine with the typed.js library, but its functionality was a bit limited and I was advised to move over to realistic-typewriter.js, the code doesn't seem to work in the same way with realistic-typewriter.js.
Here is the example code for waypoint.js from its documentation.
$('.thing').waypoint(function() {
// i tried to put the above code in here but it doesn't seem to work
); offset: '50%'
});
Basically I need to know how to combine waypoint.js and realistic-typewriter.js, but any explanations of the working processes of these would also be really helpful.

tw is an object that is accessing the "clear" method, which I am guessing clears out the element so it can type in it.
Also, looks like your waypoints code something is off. Should be something like:
$('.thing').waypoint(function() {
//code goes here
}, { offset: '50%' });
If you place the realistic-typewriter code there it should run it once you've reached that element.

Image gallery pagination

I have created the following image gallery.
http://jsfiddle.net/sfiddle/Nf7yR/7/
I think the thing is, that even though I can get a hand on the paragraphs css, the currentIndex won't update, i.e. an event listener seems to be missing.
var thumb = document.getElementById("thumb");
myParagraphs = thumb.getElementsByTagName("p");
console.log(myParagraphs[1]);
function thumby(){
$(myParagraphs[currentIndex]).css("background-color", "red");
}
thumby();
The thing is that I can not manage to link the image index with the index of the pagination dot (which has a normal p tag).
I want to code it in that way that if the first picture is displayed the first dot is red, if the second image is displayed the second ...
How could I approach this?
Thanks for any good advice as I invested a few hours already but can not get my head around it.
PS: no, I want no plugin or ready made imagegallery, I want my approach to work :-)

You made a function thumby() but you are calling it only once (during script start). You just need to call it when you change currentIndex. Here you have fixed code: http://jsfiddle.net/Nf7yR/10/ (I commented my edits).
BTW your code looks terrible. You should indent it properly to make it easier to read :)

Is it possible to create element on the fly with jQuery Mobile?

I have an app built using jQuery (and using various jQuery-UI tools).
For some reason, i have to port it to smartphones/tablet computer, and decided to use jQuery Mobile for that (in order to minimize the number of changes).
In my vanilla app, I created some elements of the page on the fly, depending of user interactions.
For example a slider could be created like that (p is an object with a bunch of params):
function createSlider(p){
return $("<div/>",{
"id":p.id,
"class":p.divClass,
}).slider({
"orientation": p.align,
"min":p.constraint.min,
"max":p.constraint.max,
"step":p.step,
"value":p.curVal,
"animate":"normal"
/*and some event handling here, but it doesn't matter*/
});
}
And it will produce a nice looking slider. Now it looks like:
function createSlider(p){
return $("<range/>",{
"id":p.id,
"class":p.divClass,
"min":p.constraint.min,
"max":p.constraint.max,
"step":p.step,
"value":p.curVal,
});
}
But as it's created on the fly, all the stuff done by jQuery Mobile on the page load isn't done on it.
Is there a way to force that initialization without writing the slider in the html?
Thanks.
EDIT: I found in the doc that it could be achieved using container.trigger("create");
However this does not work yet.
EDIT2: Ok create was the solution.

According to the documentation (see edit in the question), using trigger("create") on the containing element works.
And to make that work, you also need to remember that range is an input type and not a tag...
Working solution:
function createSlider(){
return $("<input/>",{
"type":"range",
"id":"sl",
"min":0,
"max":15,
"step":1,
"value":1,
});
}
function appendSlider(){
$("#yourdiv").append(createSlider()).trigger("create");
}
As a sidenote, the documentation for jQuery mobile lacks a search option.

Try calling .page() on the container the content is being added to. Alternatively, adding .page() to the content you're returning may also work.

Javascript getElementById - reading works, altering doesn't

So, I have this pretty complex ajax thing going.
It loads new html (including div tags and all) to show up on the page.
I included a 'more' link to load additional data.
This more link links to my javascript function. The 'more' link is located in a div, which I gave a unique id. The next time the load function is called, I use document.getElementById(the id).style.display="none"; to "remove" this div from the look of the page.
I set error traps for this, the div with that id is found without problems, but javascript fails to change my style property.
I tested alert(document.getElementById(the id).innerHTML); and that worked without problems - hence the title of the question.
So, does anyone have any ideas/do I need to offer more information? The main problem is that it doesn't throw any errors anywhere, yet it fails to complete the task I asked...
Here's a bit of code to go with it -
try
{
var myidthing = "morelink" + ContentStart.toString(); //the id is correct
var div = document.getElementById(myidthing);
if (!div)
{
}
else
{
div.style.display="none"; //this doesn't work, but doesn't raise an error
alert(div.innerHTML); //this works without problem
}
}
catch(theerr)
{
alert(theerr);
}
------------------------->EDIT<-------------------------
I'm incredibly sorry if I upset any people.
I'm also angry at myself, for it was a stupid thing in my code. Basically, I had a variable that stored the contents of a parent div. Then I (succesfully) removed the div using the removeChild() method. Then my code pasted the contents of that vaiable (including the div I wanted gone) back into the parent div.
I switched around the order and it works fine now.
Again, excuse me for this.

Throwing out a few ideas of things to look for:
You said the div is generated by javascript. Is it possible the div you are targeting is not the one you think you are? It could be you are targeting another div, which is already hidden, or obstructed... or maybe the innerHTML you are displaying goes with a different element than the one you intend to target. Put an alert or script breakpoint in the if(!div) case, also, and see if it's going down that path.
If the above code is only a stripped-down version of your actual code, check your actual code for typos (for example: style.display = "none;";)
Using the FireBug plugin for FireFox, inspect the target element after the operation completes, and make sure that the display: none appears in the style information. If not, use FireBug's debugger to walk through your javascript, and see if you can figure out why.
Use FireBug to break on all script errors, in case there is another error causing this behavior.

Try empty quotes instead of 'none' and see if that works?:
document.getElementById('element_id').style.display="";
Failing that, don't change the style, just add a class which hides the element.