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My First MooTools Presentation
On Thursday, May 27th, I gave my very first MooTools presentation to an eagerly awaiting AP Computer Science class. The presentation was in three parts, the first a general overview of javascript itself, the second a micro-guide to MooTools glowing finesse with elements, events and effects, and finally a complete section on MooTools classes to [...]
missing argument 1 when calling function mutator.call
I’ve been doing some hefty MooTools development lately, and I ran into a odd ball error in that endeavor. I put it aside for a while, ignoring it while I worked on other code. Eventuallly, I had to face it though, so here are my remarks in that journey. First, the error in question is [...]
Queue Ajax Requests in Mootools
On a recent project, I used ajax to render a full cell of a table upon clicking it. I found that without some kind of queue, my clients would click on a bunch to expand them, but only the first would render. Mootools offers a plugin in mootools more called Request.Queue, but that wasn’t what [...]
Testing Events in MooTools Classes
I was adding some much needed events to my GoodCarousel plugin for MooTools recently. I added what I thought others might need, startUp, beforeSlide, afterSlide, end, startOver, mouseEnter, mouseLeave But since I’m lazy, I didn’t want to explicitly write a function for each of those events and then put them in options argument. I’m just [...]
MooTools: takeOut and putBack methods
Sometimes you don’t want to replace an element with another one, you just want a placeholder, so you can put it back later. I wrote takeOut and putBack to help out with that. As you can see, I have the two methods. takeOut has an optional argument, elementType. You can specify a different tag-name (of [...]