javascript

Simple example of popup authentication with Facebook Graph API

Trying to get Facebook to authenticate my users via a javascript popup. Right now, I have: <input type="button" value="Connect with Facebook" onclick="window.open('https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/authorize?client_id=XXXXXXXXXXX&amp;redirect_uri=http://example.com/step2&amp;display=popup')" /> But when the user logs in via Facebook,...

Implementing a client for ActiveMQ events

I can listen to events from a certain topic in an ActiveMQ server using a simple asynchronous listener and print the incoming events to the console (code to that actually comes as an example in the activemq-cpp library). I would like to create clients on other machines that will listen to these events and update their displays. My quest...

How to get the value of a textbox modified by asp.net ajax from client side(by javascript)?

I have a textbox in a asp.net update control. When I click a button on the webpage, the value of this textbox got modified. And I want to use javascript to get the modified value. The code I use was: var kmlString = document.getElementById('<%=TextBox1.ClientID%>').getAttribute("value"); It only got the original value of my textbox. I...

Combine multiple JSON files into one; retrieve using jQuery/getJSON()

I have some jQuery code which retrieves content using getJSON(). There are n JSON files, which are retrieved from the server as needed: /json-content/data0.json /json-content/data1.json /json-content/data2.json etc... Instead, I want to store all the JSON in a single file to reduce the number of HTTP requests needed ...

Passing in defaults within window.onload?

I now understand that the following code will not work because I'm assigning window.onload to the result of the function, not the function itself. But if I remove the parens, I suspect that I have to explicitly call a separate function to process the config before the onload. So, where I now have: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTM...

JQuery\Javascript - Passing a function as a variable.

I was just curious if I could pass a function as a variable. For example: I have a function $('#validate').makeFloat({x:671,y:70,limitY:700}); I would like to do something like this: $('#validate').makeFloat({x:function(){ return $("#tabs").offset().left+$("#tabs").width();},y:70,limitY:700}); This does not work, but ideally every ...

JQuery cookie access has stopped working for GAE app

I have a google app engine app that has been running for some time, and some javascript code that checks for a login cookie has suddenly stopped working. As far as I can tell, NO code has changed. The relevant code uses the jquery cookies plugin (jquery.cookies.2.2.0.min.js)... // control the default screen depending // if someone is ...

jquery build table

menuOrder is an empty div $("#menuOrder").append('<table>'); $(menus).each(function(i, menu) { $("#menuOrder").append('<tr><td>'); $("#menuOrder").append(menu.text); $("#menuOrder").append('</td><td>'); if (i > 0) { ...

Printing Reporting Services in a page throught Javascript

I Have a PerformancePoint Server 2007 Dashboard in a Sharepoint 2007 page. In my Sharepoint page, there's 2 Filters who get passed to the Report, and I need to print this report in the page (in another button, not the SSRS one). So what I need is a javascript method that calls the SSRS print button, which is on a named DIV, insid...

Javascript equivalent of php's parse_url

Hi, I am writing a chrome extension that change part of the url in the current tab and reload the page with the modified url. I am wondering if there is a Javascript equivalent of the php's parse_url function. Currently, I have to write my own parser with regex to extract parts of the url; however, I would think that such function alrea...

Interactive World Map, highlight countries on mouseover

I need to create an interactive world map on the front page of a site, the view portal will be about 650x200 pixels. The interactivity would include the following, mouse-over a country would highlight (the countries are will literally be filled with "red" for example) that country and display the countries' name (preferably text in a di...

Is it possible to post to Facebook application Wall via JavaScript?

I have a Canvas Facebook app embedded via an iframe. I would like to include a feedback link which would encourage the user to leave a comment that would be added to the Application wall - this comment would open like a standard FB modal window. Is there anyway to post to to the Application Wall directly via JS? Everything I have found s...

Using Java Script to pass data

How can I pass data from client to server? I have a very simple text editor created on a site and every few minutes or so I would like to send the information that has been typed in back to the server as a text file. I am trying to create an effect similar to the live type of googleWave. Speed and efficiency isn't all that important at...

Is it possible to dump JavaScript errors to a div in HTML?

I'm writing a game and I've got a console for developers to interact with JavaScript methods in the game. I have a problem though; I can't figure out how to drop JavaScript errors to the console. Is there anyway to write errors to a div or HTML element? ...

JQuery: How to determine if Slide event is up or down?

I have the following code: $('a.btn-slide').toggle(function() { $("#DivToSlide").slideUp("fast"); // ... }, function() { $("#DivToSlide").slideDown("fast"); // ... }); Later in my code, I want to find out if #DivToSlide is in either the up or down position. How do I do that? ...

Print new line in the source-code with jQuery.

I have a simple function in jQuery that creates new elements in the DOM. the problem is in the html source code, it append every element in the same line, and it's very bad to read. function _loadNewElements(elements){ for(var i=0; i<elements.length; i++){ var fixedElement = $('<img />') var position = elements[i].p...

Simple Javascript Won't work

Dear Experts, I was testing some code and I became very frustrated as I couldn't even get an simple DOM alert box to work Anyway here's the code <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C/DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/tdt/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"&gt; <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt; <head> <script type="...

Javascript: previous property is undefined

Why is it saying that "lbp is undefined" on the line of "creditText"? How do I refer to previous properties in a config file such as this? var lbp = { // Pertinant page properties, such as Author, Keywords, URL or Title page: { theURL: window.location.toString(), }, // Configurable user defaults defaults: {...

Javascript function works in FF, Opera etc, fails in IE8 - how to fix

I have the following function (worked in IE6 but is broken in IE8) function implode() { var str = ''; for(item in globvars) //<- IE8 wets itself here ... str+= '\n' + globvars[item]+';'; return str+'\n'; } It seems an innocuous little function, but IE8 dosent grok it. Can anyone show me how to rewrite this so it work i...

How can I make a steady automata in JavaScript?

I'm working on a javascript game and I've got an automata system controlling game time and sprite animation as well as giving a hand to the path finding system for timing and such. My problem is on slow browsers the javascript loop I'm using for counting the time is not very accurate. It tends to jump around a lot. I there a way to force...