[Seaside] Procedure for adding a JQuery Plugin..

[Tim Murray]

Apologies if this has been covered elsewhere.

 

I would like to add a JQuery plugin for displaying charts to our site.

 

The plugin site is here http://www.jqplot.com/

 

I have modeled a new application library after the
JQUIDevelopmentLibrary which

Has two instance methods: jQueryUiJs and selectorsToInclude which
contains an array with the symbol for the other method.

 

Using this as a model, for each javascript library in the plugin...

  I replaced single quotes with a ''

  I created a method to contain it and return the javascript code.

  I added a selector o the selectorsToInclude array.

 

I then added that library containing all the javascript code for this
plugin to my application via the Dispatcher->config area.

 

Reading the Seaside Tutorial, there are 4 ways to use Javascript....

 

1. Add to a script tag

   don't use this as no way to guarantee script will run after page load

 

2. add to a list of load-scripts

   html document addLoadScript: aJavaScriptBrush

 

3. add to a DOM element

 

   html div script: aJavaScriptBrush; with: 'Hello World'

 

      Every html brush understands the message script: wich will endure 

      (1) the tag has a unique id 

      (2) passes the ID of the tag to the Javascript brush

      (3) add the Javascript brush to the list of load scripts.

 

4. Add as a DOM event handler

 

    html div onClick: aJavascriptBrush; with: 'hello World'

 

 

 

My question is what exactly is aJavascriptBrush?  Is it a smalltalk
wrapper around my new library objects? Or, can/should I access the new
library directly?

 

The plugin author has a demo/test page, and I want to display a simple
bar chart to start with:
http://www.jqplot.com/tests/barRendererTests.php

 

The javascript is trivial, so with my new library, can I just assign
this to a div and display the chart?

If a smalltalk wrapper is required, is there a boilerplate procedure for
writing it?

If somebody can guide me through the procedure, I will be very happy to
port this plugin to Seaside.

 

Thx in advance.

 

t.

 

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