Google Maps API v3 and jQuery-UI Tabs - jquery-ui

I am using the new v3 of the Google Maps API. Basically the issue I have is that I have a Google Map within jQuery UI Tabs. The map is not in the first tab, so you have to click the tab to view the map, but it does not always render correctly. I.e. sometimes the map images are not correctly placed.
I had this problem when I was using v2 of the API, but I managed to resolve the problem by initializing my Map like this:
map = new GMap2(document.getElementById("map"),{size:new GSize(500,340)});
Unfortunately that doesn't work in v3. I had a look at the suggestions in this thread: Problems with Google Maps API v3 + jQuery UI Tabs
Nothing really worked for me, but I used one of the workarounds in that I initialize the map function on tab load:
$(function()
{
$("#tabs-container").tabs({show: function(event, ui)
{
if(ui.panel.id == "viewmap")
{
mapiInitialize();
}
}});
});
This is all good but I much rather prefer for the map to be "there" when the user clicks on the tab. It sometimes takes a few seconds for the map to load up and all the user see's in that time is a plain gray background - some sort of loading indicator might have helped.
So does anybody have any suggestions? My markup and CSS is as follows:
<div id="tabs-container">
<ul>
<li><span>Details</span></li>
<li><span>Location Map</span></li>
<li><span>Reviews (<?php echo $numrows; ?>)</span></li>
</ul>
<div id="details"><?php echo $details; ?></div>
<div id="viewmap" style="padding: 10px; border: 1px solid #A9A9A9;">
<div id="map" style="height: 340px;"></div>
</div>
<div id="reviews"><?php echo $reviews; ?></div>
</div><!-- end tab-container -->

Try this when you are initializing your jQuery UI tabs:
$("#tabs-container").tabs({
show: function(event, ui) {
google.maps.event.trigger(map, 'resize');
}
});
Note: You will have to initialize the map before you initialize the tabs.

Once you switch to the tab that has the map call google.maps.events.trigger(map, 'resize'); that should then make it display correctly.

just use
map.setZoom( map.getZoom() );

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how can i use google earth API with backbone.js+jquery mobile?

How can i use google earth API with backbone.js+jquery mobile ?
I have created application using backbone.js, underscore.js and jQuery Mobile.
For google earth API, I am using sample code listed at https://developers.google.com/earth/documentation/#using_the_google_earth_api
My template rendering, and all other pages are working fine But when i load google earth API in one tag, it's not loading and in js console i get message: "ERR_INVALID_DIV ".
Google.earth module never calls back initCallback, It's always calls failureCallback when google.earth.createInstance is invoked.
I explain some sample code of mine application as under, so based on that may be you get my code structure and it helps you to solve my issue.
my js code as under,
myjs1.js
var ge;
function init() {
google.earth.createInstance('map3d', initCB, failureCB);
}
function initCB(instance) {
console.log(' init call back call ');
ge = instance;
ge.getWindow().setVisibility(true);
}
function failureCB(errorCode) {
console.log(errorCode);
}
Now my Backbone code as under,
myjs2.js
WebApp.MyPage= Backbone.View.extend({
initialize:function (result) {
this.template =_.template($('#myPage').html());
},
render:function (eventName) {
var self = this;
mydata = object dict of my data;
$(self.el).html(self.template({mydata:mydata}));
google.load("earth", "1");
init();
google.setOnLoadCallback(init);
}
Now my HTML code like as under,
<script type="text/template" id="myPage">
<div data-role="page">
<div data-role="content">
<div id="map3d" style="height: 400px; width: 600px;"></div>
</div>
</div>
</script>
myhtml.html
Is there any way to fix this?
Any help appreciated.
The Earth API works with the Google Earth Plugin, which is available only on Windows and Mac OSX. It is not available on mobile devices, sorry!
If you're testing on your Mac or Windows system, you should be able to get it working. The error code ERR_INVALID_DIV sounds like it isn't finding the map3d div. I would put a debugger; statement in the code just before the google.earth.createInstance() call, and then look around in the DOM inspector and see if map3d is in the DOM. It should be coming in from your template if that part is working.
But this won't help you when you try to load your site on a mobile device, because you won't have the Earth plugin available there.

changePage "jumps" back to old page

I've a big problem with a jQuery Mobile Application:
I'm using custom functions (they are triggered by onClick) to switch the page with currentPage.
It only happens on Android-Devices on sites in which has changed (due to ajax requests) with the integrated browser. iOS and Chrome works nice.
After clicking on an element, the animation started but just before it ends, it switches back to the old page. After a half second, it switches back to the new.
I made a movie of the bug here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXxvVUxniNg
Thank you very much
Code (CoffeeScript):
class Guide
#categoriesLoaded = false
#loadSearch: ->
$.mobile.changePage $("#guide"),
transition: 'slide'
changeHash: false
if !#categoriesLoaded
#categoriesLoaded = true
GuideApi.getCategories (data) ->
output = Mustache.render $("#tmpl-guide-categories-select").html(),
categories: data
$("#guide-search-category").append output
$("#guide-search-category").val($("#guide-search-category option:first").val());
window.WgSwitchGuide = ->
Guide.loadSearch
I was having the same issue. And I tried everything, I finally end with the solution. What I found was the error was principally within the browser. So I set the configuration of the pushStateEnabled as false. I did it by doing the following, adding this script.
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).bind("mobileinit", function(){
$.mobile.pushStateEnabled = false;
});
</script>
It should be add before the jquery-mobile script is call, for more information you could see it on JQuery description
And it solved the problem no more jumping back.
I was having the exact same issue on both android and ios. For me, it was happening for heavy pages, i.e., pages with complex elements etc. Looks like you are using "slide" transition, which was what I was using as well. Taking out the page transitions (i.e., $.mobile.changePage("page.html", { transition: "none" })) for those pages resolved this issue for me. Hope this helps.
If you want to retain the transition, you can try preloading the page first when the previous page is being shown, by using the $.mobile.loadPage, and then show the transition. I am myself exploring this route, but it is probably worth trying.
Edit: OK - I explored the last suggestion and this doesn't seem to be working. Will stick with the first option.
Would you try to add the event stopPropagation and preventDefault methods on the first page's click event? This way the default action of the click event will not be triggered. Moreover the stopPropagation prevents the event from bubbling up the DOM tree, preventing any parent handlers from being notified of the event.
event.stopPropagation();
event.preventDefault();
Example:
$("p").click(function(event){
event.stopPropagation();
event.preventDefault();
// change page
});
After trying for weeks to find a solution to this, I ended up doctoring the JQM library to disable page transitions one right after another. It's not a good solution, but it's the only thing I could get to work.
I was getting pages jumping back on both $.mobile.changePage and on anchor links. I used the slide transition, but removing it did not fix the problem. Setting pushStateEnabled to false did not work either. The jumps were happening on all devices and browsers (that I tested, anyway).
So here's what I did to the JQM library (v1.3.2).
Before the $.mobile.changePage function is defined, I added:
var justChangedPage = false;
Then within the function there's a line that goes:
if ( pbcEvent.isDefaultPrevented()) {
return;
}
which I changed to:
if ( pbcEvent.isDefaultPrevented() || justChangedPage) {
return;
}
Then right after this part of the $.mobile.changePage function:
if ( toPage[ 0 ] === $.mobile.firstPage[ 0 ] && !settings.dataUrl ) {
settings.dataUrl = documentUrl.hrefNoHash;
}
I added:
justChangedPage = true;
setTimeout(function() {
justChangedPage = false;
}, 500);
(Putting that earlier in the function didn't work -- all that stuff executes more than once within a single page transition. And half a second seemed to be the minimum timeout that prevented the page jumps.)
I hope this helps someone even if it is a hack...
What is your JQM and Android version?
I'm not sure If I understand correctly. I think transition flicker maybe come from the following assumption.
Heavy page DOM transition.
Using "translate3d" somewhere in css file.
Not using "H/W Acceleration" feature. Enable by add this line to your AndroidManifest.xml in <application>
android:hardwareAccelerated="true"
I encountered exactly the same behaviour and it seems that few people are having the same issue. At first I thought it is caused by jQuery mobile library. Later on, I manage to find where the problem came from and it is a bug in my own code.
I made a demo to explain the issue.
http://jsfiddle.net/pengyanb/6zvpgd4p/10/
Hopefully, this can be hint for people having the same problem.
$(document).on('pagebeforeshow', '#page2', function(){
console.log('Page2 before show');
var htmlGeneratedOnTheFly = '<ul data-role="listview" data-inset="true">';
for(var i=0; i<4; i++)
{
htmlGeneratedOnTheFly += '<li><a>Random html element</a></li><li data-role="list-divider"></li>';
}
htmlGeneratedOnTheFly += '</div>';
$('#page2UiContent').empty();
$('#page2UiContent').append(htmlGeneratedOnTheFly);
$('#page2UiContent').trigger('create');
//////////////////////////////////////////////////
//The following section is where the bug is generated.
//Each on "page2 before show event" will add a OK Button click handler.
//The handlers never get cleared.
//More and more handler is added to the Page2 OK button as pages going back and forth.
//Open the browser's console window to see multiple "Page 2 OK Button clicked!!!" lines on one button click.
//To fix the bug, move the following section out of the $(document).on('pagebeforeshow', '#page2', function(){});
//////////////////////////////////////////////////
$('#page2OkButton').click(function(){
console.log("Page 2 OK Button clicked!!!");
$.mobile.changePage('#page1', {transition:"flip"});
});
//////////////////////////////////////////////
//////////////////////////////////////////////
});
<link href="http://code.jquery.com/mobile/1.4.5/jquery.mobile-1.4.5.css" rel="stylesheet"/>
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/mobile/1.4.5/jquery.mobile-1.4.5.js"></script>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div data-role="page" id="page1" data-theme="a">
<div data-role="header" data-position="fixed">
<h5>Demo Page 1</h5>
</div>
<div data-role="main" class="ui-content">
<h2>jQuery mobile changepage jumps back to old page demo</h2>
<p>Click "Go To Page 2" button to go to page2</p>
<p>On Page2 click Ok Button to come back to page1</p>
<p>Keeping going back forth between two pages for few times.</p>
<p>Eventually, you will find that clicked on "Go To Page2" button to flip to Page2 but it soon jumps back to page1 automatically. </p>
<h2>Please read the comments in the javascript for explaination</h2>
Go To Page 2
</div>
</div>
<div data-role="page" id="page2" data-theme="a">
<div data-role="header" data-position="fixed">
<h5>Demo Page 2</h5>
</div>
<div id="page2UiContent" data-role="main" class="ui-content">
</div>
<div data-role="footer" data-position="fixed" style="text-align:center;">
<div data-role="navbar">
<ul>
<li><a id="page2OkButton" class="ui-btn ui-icon-check ui-btn-icon-left">OK</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>

jQuery UI tabs: How do I load a specific element from a different page?

I have jQuery UI tabs set up, but a problem that I'm having with links to different pages is that they load all contents of the page into the tab. This includes the footer, header, and other navbars that I don't want in the tab. What if I would only like to load a single ID from that page?
My tabs are set up this way:
<div id="mytabs">
<ul>
<li>Awesome page</li>
<li>Foo</li>
</ul>
</div>
Nothing much going on in the jQuery...
$(function() {
$( "#mytabs" ).tabs();
});
Let's say this is the html of "awesomepage" (that the first link targets):
<html>
<head>
<title>awesome page</title>
</head>
<body>
<div id="header">bla</div>
<div id="awesomeness">awesomeness!</div>
<div id="footer">fdsfd</div>
</body>
</html>
...And I only want the tab to load #awesomeness from the page. How would I go about doing this? I've read into some guides that do that by adding a data-target="#youridhere" attribute to the HTML, but I'm still confused on how to implement the javascript. It seems like this is a convenient solution, as I won't be targeting the same ID in every page. Any clues on how to get the javascript working?
Thanks in advance!
The function that allow to load partial code of the response is the $.load() function.
Unfortunately, the tabs() feature does not use this function but use $.ajax instead.
You can try this solution:
You can try to stop the default processing on the beforeLoad callback and manage your ajax call with the $.load() method.
(base on the 1.9 documentation, you may should adapt)
$('#tabs').tabs({
// Callback run when selecting a tab
beforeLoad: function(event, ui) {
// If the panel is already populated do nothing
if (ui.panel.children().size() > 0)
return false;
// Make your own ajax load (with fragment feature)
ui.panel.load(ui.tab.attr('href') + ' #yourFragment');
// stop the default process (default ajax call should not be launched)
return false;
});
NOTICE: I'm not sure about extracting the URL with ui.tab.attr('href'), check before what object is ui.tab, but it should be easy to retrieve the href parameter.
Good luck
Got the solution :) Using one of the answers as a reference point, the tabs can now load a single element specified in the data-target attribute. Here is the modified version:
$(function() {
$('#tabs').tabs(
{
beforeLoad: function(event, ui) {
if (ui.panel.children().size() > 0)
return false;
ui.panel.load($('a', ui.tab).attr('href') + $('a', ui.tab).attr('data-target'));
return false;
}
});
});

jQuery Mobile - back button

I am developing the application using jQuery Mobile 4.1.
In my app, I have two html pages like login.html and home.html. In the home.html have 3 pages. () like menupage, searchpage, resultpage.
The project flow is login.html ---> home.html. In home.html, menupage is displayed as a first page. If I choose the some option in the menupage it will move to searchpage and then resultpage. consider, currently I am in the resultpage. If I press the back button on the mobile browsers (iPhone-safari, Android-chrome) then it moves to the login.html.
But I want to display the searchPage. How to solve this one? is it possible to do this?
[Note : The pages should be in the single html page(home.html).
use the attribute data-rel="back" on the anchor tag instead of the hash navigation, this will take you to the previous page
Look at back linking: Here
Newer versions of JQuery mobile API (I guess its newer than 1.5) require adding 'back' button explicitly in header or bottom of each page.
So, try adding this in your page div tags:
data-add-back-btn="true"
data-back-btn-text="Back"
Example:
<div data-role="page" id="page2" data-add-back-btn="true" data-back-btn-text="Back">
try
$(document).ready(function(){
$('mybutton').click(function(){
parent.history.back();
return false;
});
});
or
$(document).ready(function(){
$('mybutton').click(function(){
parent.history.back();
});
});
You can try this script in the header of HTML code:
<script>
$.extend( $.mobile , {
ajaxEnabled: false,
hashListeningEnabled: false
});
</script>
You can use nonHistorySelectors option from jquery mobile where you do not want to track history. You can find the detailed documentation here http://jquerymobile.com/demos/1.0a4.1/#docs/api/globalconfig.html
This is for version 1.4.4
<div data-role="header" >
<h1>CHANGE HOUSE ANIMATION</h1>
Back
</div>
try to use li can be more even
<ul>
<li>back</li>
</ul>

click event using jquery live

I have the following script which works as long as the are static html
$('li.tab').each(function(index) {
$("#tab" + index ).click(function() {$("#tabs").tabs( "select" , index );});
});
This is what the static html looks like:
<div class="item" id="tab0"><div class="icon" style="background-image: url('http://intranet/icon0.png');"></div> Default</div>
<div class="item" id="tab1"><div class="icon" style="background-image: url('http://intranet/icon1.png');"></div> Reports</div>
<div class="item" id="tab2"><div class="icon" style="background-image: url('http://intranet/icon2.png');"></div> Other</div>
If I use a database to generate the 3 html lines via jquery/ajax, do I have to use the jquery live function to connect the click event look in the script above?
If yes, how would I do this?
yes you need to use live
$('li.tab').each(function(index) {
$("#tab" + index).live('click', function() {
// ...
});
});
$('.your_target_class').live('click', function () {
//your code here.
});
Instead of .live(), use .delegate() which you bind to an object that surrounds what you're targeting. You can chain .delegate() plus it's better performance wise (you can look it up here http://jquerybyexample.blogspot.com/2010/08/bind-vs-live-vs-delegate-function.html)
Also, don't forget to use .die()/.undelegate(), otherwise you're running a risk of firing multiple requests (ie, if your .live() declaration gets called multiple times, your click event will fire multiple times. You can look this up here jQuery UI ajax tabs - requests multiplying when loading links within tabs)
Mind you, jQuery 1.4.2 has a bug in it's .live(), take that into account.

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