Knockout js registerEvent handler - jquery-ui

I'm having a great time playing around with knockout js and have just started to get to grips with adding custom bindingHandlers.
I'm struggling a bit with the update function of a 3rd party jqWidget gauge - I can only get it to animate the first time I update the variable. On each update after that it just sets the value directly.
I don't fully understand ko.utils.registerEventHandler() and what it does although I've seen it in a bunch of other examples. Is this what is causing the animation to break? How do I know which events to register from the 3rd party widget?
For some reason this works fine if I add a jquery ui slider that is also bound to the observable.
You can test this here: set the value a few times to see that it animates the first time and not after that.
http://jsfiddle.net/LkqTU/4531/

When you update the input field, your observable will end up being a string. It looks like the gauge does not like to be updated with a string value, at least after the first time.
So, if you ensure that you are updating it with a number (parseInt, parseFloat, or just + depending on the situation), then it appears to update fine.
Something like:
update: function(element, valueAccessor) {
var gaugeval = parseInt(ko.utils.unwrapObservable(valueAccessor()), 10);
$(element).jqxGauge('value', gaugeval || 0);
}
http://jsfiddle.net/rniemeyer/LkqTU/4532/
You would generally only register event handlers in a scenario like this to react to changes made by a user where you would want to update your view model data. For example, if there was a way for a user to click on the gauge to change the value, then you would want to handle that event and update your view model value accordingly.

I'm answering the
I don't fully understand ko.utils.registerEventHandler() and what it does
part of your question.
registerEventHandler will register your event handler function in a cross-browser compatible way. If you are using jQuery, Knockout will use jQuery's bind function to register the event handler. Otherwise, will use the browser Web API with a consistent behavior across browsers.
You can check it out on the source code.

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How to run a specific method when props changes in Svelte3?

I'm building an autocomplete text field component. We will show popup of items filtered based on what users type. It is going to be async, I will get the details from the server and do some filtering based on the text typed in the field.
So here, I have run this filtering logic whenever I send new data to the component.
I come from angular, there we used to have ngOnChange(). Is there something similar available in svelte3.
Right now, I'm filtering by calling the method from outside by binding bind:this. I don't feel like this is a correct approach.
https://github.com/manojp1988/svelte3-autocomplete/blob/master/dev/App.svelte
Without stores, using a prop
Just using a prop:
export let search = '';
....
$: if (search !== '') { // make it react to changes (in the parent)
doSomeThing(search);
};
Stores
Svelte also has stores. A store is an observable object which can be observed everywhere even beyond you project with RxJS.
Example:
const unsubscribe = search.subscribe(s) => {
doSomeThing(s);
});
onDestroy(unsubscribe);
In another component you can use search.set('Hi');
But looking forward for other solutions to handle these kind of changes in parent <-> child components or calling child Component methods.
From child to parent we can fire events.
But from parent to child ...? we can use a store or Component bind:this or ..? but ....

Is there an event to watch for on pushObject?

I'm programmatically pushing an object (using pushObject) into a list that is sortable. My problem becomes that if I try $(selector).sortable('refresh') or $(selector).sortable('serialize') the serialize doesn't contain the recently added dom item. I can console.log($(selector)) and it seems to know that the dom item has been added though.
My original thought is there an event to watch for once pushObject has finished? Or a callback?
Is there an event to watch for on pushObject?
Easiest way to do this is add an observer that fires when the list length has changed. But probably that's not gonna be enough in this case.
It sounds like this is a timing issue. If you try to call refresh right after pushObject (or even in an observer) the refresh code is going to run before the dom has been updated.
The trick is to make sure you are calling $(selector).sortable('refresh') after the new elements have been written to the dom. That could be from a didInsertElement hook on the dom item's view or from an observer, but as #Luke reminded me in comments best way to do it is by scheduling refresh to run after render has completed. Something like:
Em.run.schedule('afterRender', this, this.refreshSortable)

Using ZURB Foundation for tooltips -- Newly-created DOM elements are not bound to tooltip 'hover' event

My specific usage case is that I'm using a .net postback to display an update panel of elements that have tooltips associated with them. I have already initialized the ZURB Foundation (provides tooltips) script on the page, and the first-page tooltips work great. After the postback, I want to *re*initialize the script so that these new tooltip items are bound to the 'hover' event.
Generic usage case is any situation where new tooltip-enabled elements are added in any way.
It appears to me that the 'hover' binding is done on page init to the existing collection of '.has-tip' elements, but there is handling of future .has-tip elements coming into existance.
I'd like to do the following:
a) Reinitialize the tooltip plugin and search for new .has-tip elements to attach the 'hover' event to.
have tried a number of different ways to try and reinitialize, but
$.fn.tooltips('init');
seems to be the most hopeful, in that it successfully calls the init method in the script, but does not bind the hover event to the new .has-tip elements.
Edit/Clarification:
it seems like there was a bug with dynamic content:
https://github.com/zurb/foundation/pull/465
When the bug is fixed
(you can fix it yourself, read the pull req. for more info), the bug is fixed, so you can
trigger a page-wide tool-tip refresh with:
$(document).tooltips('reload');
Original answer
If you didn't figure it out yet, jquery.tooltips.js has a method/function called .reload that actually seems to be the most promising (code is from the foundation plugin):
reload : function() {
var $self = $(this);
return ($self.data('tooltips')) ? $self.tooltips('destroy').tooltips('init') : $self.tooltips('init');
},
It's really just a chain of their other methods, but it's probably best to .destroy before .init to avoid double tooltips or some other collision.
I have tried a lot of suggestions, but what truly works is:
After you finish editing the DOM, you have to call to
$(document).foundation();
This sentence is going to refresh everything, including your tooltips. WORKS LIKE A CHARM.
I had the same problem when genereted modal windows with Ajax,
Here is my fix for that:
$(document)
.on('opened.fndtn.reveal', '[data-reveal]', function () {
$('html').css({'overflow': 'hidden'});
$('.has-tip').each(function(i){
var tip = $(this);
Foundation.libs.tooltip.create(tip);
});
})
It works for ZF v5.2+

Dynamically Loading LI's in JQueryMobile 1.0

I've just updated my project from jquerymobile 1.0a1 to version 1.0.
I've encountered a problem with dynamic content. Based on an ajax search I populate an unordered list with list items. Previous the following code refreshed the list so that all the styling appeared correctly:
$('#myContent').find("ul").listview();
$('#myContent').find("ul").listview('refresh');
However as of 1.0 this no longer seems to work.
The list appears but the styling is all wrong and the data-theme on all the elements gets ignored.
Has anyone come across a similar issue with updating and come across the solution.
Updating lists If you add items to a listview, you'll need to call the refresh() method on it to update the styles and create
any nested lists that are added. For example:
$('#mylist').listview('refresh');
Note that the refresh() method only affects new nodes appended to a
list. This is done for performance reasons. Any list items already
enhanced will be ignored by the refresh process. This means that if
you change the contents or attributes on an already enhanced list
item, these won't be reflected. If you want a list item to be updated,
replace it with fresh markup before calling refresh.
http://jquerymobile.com/demos/1.0/docs/lists/docs-lists.html
if #myContent is the listview you can do this:
$('#myContent').listview('refresh');
if #myContent is the page you can do something like this:
$('#myContent').trigger('create');
Create vs. refresh: An important distinction Note that there is an important difference between the create event and refresh method
that some widgets have. The create event is suited for enhancing raw
markup that contains one or more widgets. The refresh method should be
used on existing (already enhanced) widgets that have been manipulated
programmatically and need the UI be updated to match.
For example, if you had a page where you dynamically appended a new
unordered list with data-role=listview attribute after page creation,
triggering create on a parent element of that list would transform it
into a listview styled widget. If more list items were then
programmatically added, calling the listview’s refresh method would
update just those new list items to the enhanced state and leave the
existing list items untouched.
http://jquerymobile.com/demos/1.0/docs/pages/page-scripting.html
What you want can be achieved by replacing your 2 lines of code with the following:
$('#myContent ul').listview('create');
Hope this helps...
I've had this issue. The reason you are getting things all messed up is you are initalizing and refreshing the element multiple times. I noticed I had 2 different functions running that would call .listview('refresh') on the same element. After I took one out the themes and data went back to looking normal. Also are you getting any JS errors?
EDIT:
To be more specific you are calling .listview() somewhere in your code 2 times which is initializing it twice. I would wait to before you page is loaded to run the refresh so you only call it once.
Another thing you could do is check if the element is initialized already or not so you don't do it twice. Just check the element or in some cases the parent to see if the class ui-listview is present.
var element = $('#myContent').find('ul');
if ($(element).hasClass('ui-listview')) {
//Element is already initialized
$(element).listview('refresh');
} else {
//Element has not been initiliazed
$(element).listview().listview('refresh');
}
Just an FYI you can chain those events to look like $('#myContent').find('ul').listview().listview('refresh');
It cand be achived through.
$('#myContent').listview('refresh');
The below snippet shows you to load data from xml and dynamically create a list view.
function loadData()
{
$.ajax({
url:"BirthdayInvitations.xml",
dataType: "xml",
success: function(xml)
{
$(xml).find("event").each(function()
{
$("#mymenu").append('<li>' + this.textContent + ' </li>');
});
$("#mymenu").listview('refresh');
}
});
}
See if this is related to ur question http://www.amitpatil.me/demos/jquery-mobile-twitter-app/ and this one also http://www.amitpatil.me/demos/ipad-online-dictionary-app/
In first example i am using listview('refresh'); method and in second example i am using
$(document).page("destroy").page();

jQuery UI Autocomplete - How to handle AJAX errors?

I'm using the jQuery Autocomplete control to autocomplete from the server via an AJAX call.
I implemented the search event to show a "Loading..." animation while results are being fetched from the server.
I want to disable that animation and show a message if fetching the autocomplete results from the server failed (timeout or whatever)
Whats the best way to do that?
Have a looksie at the jQuery.ajaxError method, which allows you to setup a default error callback for all ajax calls; http://api.jquery.com/ajaxError/
I just find myself in this situation. I wanted to clear the spinner from the textbox, and also highlight it in red, to provide visual feedback of the error. But I have 3 different textboxes in DOM that use the same function. So, you can do something like this:
function autocompleteSource(request,response){
//"this" is the widget object, you can get the element that called the autocomplete function from here
var callerTextbox = $(this.element);
$.get(url,data).done(/*do your stuff with the data*/).fail(function(){
highlight(callerTextbox) //That's my own function, uses jquery animation effects
response([]); //Use an empty response for clear the textbox
});
}

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