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How to totally disable elements events?

I'm using the compound model and the cytoscape-compound-drag-and-drop extension to let the user manually reorganize the layout by grouping some nodes together and moving whole groups easily.
Now I want a button to toggle the display of these groups "boxes", but keep displaying all non-parent nodes.
I first tried hide() on parent nodes, but it also hides the children, so I switched to dynamically applying a class which specifies display:hidden.
It seemed to do the trick, but still the hidden box can be clicked and cytoscape default "visual feedback" for click applies, showing off the area where the hidden box still lies.
I tried plenty of things that didn't work:
- disable events from my hidden style class: tried events:no. Should I report this as a bug ?
- .ungrabify().unselectify().panify().lock()
- on click: destroy the event object
- set e.target._private.active = false
I tried a nasty hack: setting e.target._private.position = {}
The event is still fired, but destroying the position sucessfully prevents the "visual feedback" from happenning, my box effectively stays "hidden".
But still the event occurs on the wrong target: the box, not on the empty space of the cytoscape container. I can keep hacking and leave with it, but isn't there a simpler solution to ?
Is it possible to simply and truly pass through hidden parent nodes events ?

You haven't used events properly.
cy.$('node').forEach(node => {
node.events = 'no'; // will not work
});
The following does work, and you can also restore events whenever you want.
cy.$('node').forEach(node => {
node.style('events', 'no');
});

Gridster, wrong placement while adding widget

I'm using Gridster for one of my first Javascript projects and I've run into a problem.
When I add a widget to my grid, it doesn't go where I want, here is a jsfiddle of a sample of my project.
$('#blockDroite').droppable({
drop: function(e) {
gridster.add_widget('<li class="widget"><div class="delete">X</div></li>', 1, 1);
}
});
When I drag and drop in a drop zone, a widget is created, but not at the correct position. Rather, it's placing it outside of the grid. When I move it manually it goes in the grid. When you add a new widget you can see it's behind the first one if you place it in the first column and row.
Question
What can I do to fix this?

Ok I solved my problem, just forgot to add the "gridster class" to my ul. This "gridster class" is defined in the "jquery.gridster.css"
<div id="blockDroite" class="gridster">Drop zone

jQuery draggable helper clone event

I'm using jQuery to drag items around. The items have click events. I'd like to register clicks where the user moves the mouse a little while the button is still down, so, using mouseup instead of click is the obvious answer, but! I need to use helper: 'clone' on drag, because items are in a container set to overflow: scroll (or auto) and I need to drag(/drop) outside of that container.
So the question is, is there a way to register a mouseup event on the clone?
I'd also need access to the original item - for a colour change, let's say.
Here's an example: http://jsfiddle.net/kFBtr/
Thank you.

Yes, using delegate or live, something like this:
jQuery('body').delegate('.ui-draggable-dragging','mouseup',function(){alert('OMG!! Mouse Up')})
To access the original element, just use prev:
function(){jQuery(this).prev()}
Example: http://jsfiddle.net/kFBtr/1/

Items in Sencha Touch Carousel disappearing

I'm currently building an application using Sencha Touch. We have a certain Carousel on a page that contains multiple items. Upon clicking a button on a different panel, certain items are added and removed to the panel.
The problem: all works as planned for the first click, but clicking upon clicking the same button again, the functionality stops working and the Carousel display turns blank, with none of the items visible.
Below is the handler for the buttons that change the content of the carousel itemsCarousel. The function adds itemPanels[ b.getBadgeText() ] to the itemsCarousel's items. For the first four clicks or so, this works great. After around then, when I click a button, all the items in the Carousel vanish, and I cannot add or remove any more content, even invoking the Carousel manually from the console.
handler: function(b, e) {
itemsCarousel.insert(1, itemPanels[ b.getBadgeText() ]);
itemsCarousel.doLayout(); itemsCarousel.doComponentLayout();
itemsCarousel.setActiveItem(1);
itemsCarousel.remove(0, false);
}
Things I have attempted:
Changing the order by inserting the item at slot 0, setting 0 active, and then removing 1.
Putting javascript breakpoints on each of the lines, seeing where the carousel goes blank. Sometimes it occours at the .insert() statement, sometimes at the .remove().
Doing all this manually, from the console.
Tweaking the autoDestroy parameter in the .remove() call (as seen above) and in the declaration of itemsCarousel.
If you need more code I can post whatever you think may be relevant, I didn't want to pollute this thread with excess code. Thanks for your help!
Edit: If anyone knows another way to reproduce the same functionality, I am open to that as well. I am thinking perhaps creating a dummy holder Container with one item, a carousel, and deleting the entire carousel and re-adding a brand new (with the new items) one upon the button click?

Well, I figured out how to reproduce the functionality using a different method.
I built multiple carousels, each containing the panels I wanted, and then had a root panel that simply sets the active carousel based on button presses. For example, the hierarchy looks like this now:
rootPanel
{
carousel[0]
{
panel1
panel2
}
carousel[1]
{
panel3
panel4
}
...
}
and I perform rootPanel.setActiveItem(x) to display the new carousel.

selecting multiple elements using shift and mouse click - jquery

Is it possible to use shift and mouse click to select multiple elements on a page using jquery?
I have several divs that i have given a tabindex to so that i can select them and can do things like delete them etc.
I want to be able to select more than 1 by holding down shift and using the mouse to click on each div and am struggling to do this.
Does anyone know how this can be done?

I did something like that some time ago, with jQuery:
$(id).click(function(event){ //Mouse Click+shift event
if(event.shiftKey){
//give some attribute that can indentify the elements of the selection
//example rel='multi-selection' or class='multi-selection'
}
});
Then you should do functions that select this elements and do whatever you need, I used this to drag multiple elements. Example if you want to delete this divs, you can for example:
function deleteMultiSelection(){
$('html').find('div[rel=multi-selection']).each(function(){
$(this).remove();
})
}
$("#button").click(function(){
deleteMultiSelection();
})
Be careful because I didn't test this code.

I have a jQuery plugin that does exactly what you want it is called finderSelect it enables Shift+Click, Ctrl+Click, Ctrl+Click+Drag and Standard Clicking on any element.

It sounds like jQuery UI Selectable is what you're after, you can try it out here.
To stay with OS conventions, they key it uses is Ctrl and not Shift, this isn't an option you can change without changing the jQuery UI code itself. It also has the feature of click and drag over elements to get a rectangular selection as well...if that's of any use.

Sure, if you are willing to do some work :)
Listen for the shift keydown, set a var that you can access from within your click handler functions, if the var is set then add that item, (or their tabindex for your current implementation) to your list of items to operate on when an 'action button' is pressed.
unset the var when you get the shift keyup event.

To be honest, the Ctrl + left click for selecting multiple items is pretty standard UI behaviour and built-in to the jQueryUI Selectable. Did you also know you can left click and drag a focus over multiple items to select them?
However, I can see an advantage in offering the behaviour in question, so how about using left click or drag to select and then left click and drag to also de-select?
It may not be the most efficient way of doing it, but after playing around with the in-built callbacks, I've come up with something that seems to work. Based on the code in your question I've hooked into the in-built callback functions to store what was selected and also handle the selection removal. JavaScript duplicated below but