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GridStack- Setting the static grids

I am trying to make the grids static. No movement at all.
I tried:
var options = {
staticGrid: true,
};
$('.grid-stack').gridstack(options);
and also this
var options = {
setStatic: true,
};
$('.grid-stack').gridstack(options);
and this
var options = {
staticGrid: true,
};
$('.grid-stack').gridstack(options);
$('.grid-stack').data('gridstack').setStatic(true);
None of them seems to work, I used this link for documentation.
They have also mentioned a method setStatic but there are no examples of usign this method.

According to the Gridstack docs the staticGrid:true parameter is correct if you want to initialise and define the grid as STATIC at startup (your first method).
The SetStatic(true) is a function you can call on for toggling this state programatically.
If you view the source code live you will see a new CSS class has been added to the grid wrapper DIV; a class called 'grid-stack-static'. The appearance of this class confirms the parameter option staticGrid:true has been accepted and actioned.
BUT as I found myself (with v0.30 of the library), grid widgets in my initialised grid are still resizable and movable. In my opinion this suggests a bug.
You can lock down movement and resizing at a widget item level by using the item attributes data-gs-no-resize="yes" and data-gs-no-move="yes".
Seems counterproductive to have to do this if you have said 'static' already.
I have lodged an issue on Github to query this behaviour.
BTW it has been suggested to call on and use the setStatic( true ) function after grid init; as a temporary fix for this bug. Which was your third method - AND this worked for me.
Only difference between your 3rd method and mine is the function is wrapped in a document.ready function (and I am using $=jquery shortcut for convenience/compatibility on my system).
Worked:
(function ($) {
// Shortcut $=jquery
$(document).ready(function () {
// start grid
$(function () {
var options = {
staticGrid:true
};
$('.grid-stack').gridstack(options);
$('.grid-stack').data('gridstack').setStatic( true );
});
// END DOC READY
});
// SHORTCUT FIX
})( jQuery );

Just set the attribute gs-static="true"on the grid-stack's parent Grid element (on which gridstack has been initialized).
<div class="grid-stack" gs-static="true">
<div class="grid-stack-item">
<div class="grid-stack-item-content">Item 1</div>
</div>
<!-- .. and so on -->
</div

understanding Plugin destroy function

hey guys i am very new to js and jquery in genenral and i was just going throught the plugin code of a gallery plugin , i can across the function called _loadevents , that had the following content , see below :
this.$navPrev.on('click.gallery', function (event) {
});
this.$navNext.on('click.gallery', function (event) {
});
this.$wrapper.on('webkitTransitionEnd.gallery transitionend.gallery OTransitionEnd.gallery', function (event) {
});
now $navPrev , $navNext , and $wrapper are obviously some HTML element , now my question is about another method i came across in the same plugin , look below :
destroy: function () {
// console.log('inside destroy');
this.$navPrev.off('.gallery');
this.$navNext.off('.gallery');
this.$wrapper.off('.gallery');
}
now i see that if this function is called all the event handlers will be taken off. now , can somebody tell me what is the necessacity of such a function , does it improve a plugins efficiency ? how or when does such a function get used and is it a common practice to write e destroy function for events in plugins ?
Thank you.
Alex-z .

Destroy functions in plugins enable a developer to reset or remove a plugin from an element, restoring the element to before the plugin was initialised. This is useful if, for example, you have a gallery plugin that works and looks fantastic on desktop, but you don't want it on mobile. You can listen to resize event on window and if the window size is smaller than e.g. 710px then destroy the plugin. This will remove all the added events, undo any DOM manipulation, and restore the html elements back to how they were before the plugin was first initialised (turn-wise, if the window size is larger than 710px then initialise the plugin).
They are generally considered good practice.

jQuery - bxSlider plugin reloadSlider issues

I'm using jQuery with the bxSlider plugin, here is the link to it just incase: http://bxslider.com/
I'm trying to reload the slider and my custom pager after I've removed certain slides from it.
Here is what I have tried:
$(function() {
var slider = $('#slider').bxSlider({
pagerCustom: '#bx-pager'
});
$('.list').on('click', '.delete', function() {
image = $(this).closest('li').find('[type="hidden"]');
// image.attr('id') contains a string: image-0, image-1, image-2, etc.
$('#slider, #bx-pager').find('.' + image.attr('id')).remove();
slider.reloadSlider({
pagerCustom: '#bx-pager'
}); // I have also tried: slider.reloadSlider();
});
});
It works partially. What happens is the slider gets reloaded just fine but it removes the pager completely when it runs the reload.
Thank you very much for any help.

As long as I see, this is a bug in bxSlider, in fact, when you call the reloadSlider method, internally are called the methods destroySlider and init.
In the destroySlider method the pagerEl element is destroyed, this is right if you are not using a custom one, because it is recreated programmatically in the init method, but if you are using a custom one it can't be recreated programmatically.
I ended up modifying the destroySlider method to check if a custom pager is used, in this case it must not be deleted.
Here is the before (line 1294):
if(slider.pagerEl) slider.pagerEl.remove();
And after:
if (slider.settings.pagerCustom === '') {
if(slider.pagerEl) slider.pagerEl.remove();
}
I'll post the bug on GitHub as soon as I have the time.

jQuery animate element and hide

I'm building Windows 8 app in JavaScript. What I'm trying to do is to slide the html element out of the screen and then change its "display" property to "none":
var panelContainer = $('#panelContainer');
panelContainer.animate({ right: '-400px' }, 200, function () {
panelContainer.hide();
});
But this code doesn't work correctly: it just immediately hides the element without animation.
I've also tried:
var panelContainer = $('#panelContainer');
panelContainer.animate({ right: '-400px' }, 200, function () {
panelContainer.hide(200);
});
and it works, but it's a hack: I don't want to change the opacity when animating and I don't need to have additional timeout for hiding.
I've found that jQuery UI library has extended show and hide methods that do that, but I would like not to reference this library just for one call. I'm aware that there is a WinJS.UI.Flyout that performs similar operation, but it's not applicable in my case. Any ideas how this can be done?

The problem was that jQuery does not put hide animation into its animation queue by default. That's why my initial code was hiding the html element first and then animating it. The solution for that is to call hide with the parameter that explicitly specifies that hide call should be queued:
panelContainer.hide({queue: true});

Ember Collapsible Container

I'm using Ember.js with handlebars and I need to make a div within my page collapse/expand when clicked. I know how to do this in jQuery, but I can't use any jQuery. Does anyone know how to accomplish this? Also I don't want to just toggle a hide attribute, I need the full sliding up and down feature for collapsing. If anyone has any ideas, I'd really appreciate it.
Thanks

Clicking on your view will cause a click event to be triggered. You can code your animation in any manner you want inside a click event handler in your view:
CollapsableView = Ember.View.extend({
click : function(event) {
this.$().toggle('fast');
}
})

The proper way of doing this in Ember is via the awesome Liquid Fire addon.
The outline:
Install Liquid Fire into your project.
Define a transition like this:
this.transition(
this.hasClass('transition-spoiler'),
this.toValue(true),
this.use('toDown'),
this.reverse('toUp')
);
In your controller/component, create a property spoilerIsVisible and a toggleSpoiler property:
spoilerIsVisible: false,
actions: {
toggleSpoiler: function() {
this.toggleProperty('spoilerIsVisible');
}
}
In your page/component template, create a button and a spoiler wrapper like this:
<button {{action 'toggleSpoiler'}}>
{{if spoilerIsVisible 'Show spoiler' 'Hide spoiler'}}
</button>
{{#liquid-if spoilerIsVisible class="transition-spoiler"}}
<p>Dumbledore dies</p>
{{/liquid-if}}
Note that you can wrap steps 3-4 into an x-spoiler component or something.

I do something similar, but with a tree-structure. I have written a blog post about this previously here: http://haagen-software.no/blog/post/2012-05-05-Ember_tree
It has the features you need in it, in that it adds and removed elements from the DOM when the nodes are clicked on.
A working example can be seen in an app I am currently building here: https://github.com/joachimhs/EurekaJ/tree/netty-ember/EurekaJ.View/src/main/webapp