Comments on: MooTools dwCheckboxes Plugin

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:47:24 +0000

I use prototype, not MooTools. Here is a copy with fewer options, but for prototype.http://pastie.org/532109Thanks, David.

By: adamnfish

adamnfish — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:24:07 +0000

Fredrik Bränström says:
It should work on the labels as well.

I agree. That was the first thing i tried and I was surprised when it didn’t work. I rarely click on the actual checkbox unless I’m forced to (if the for attribute isn’t set)

By: david

david — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:02:01 +0000

@Aaron Newton: Thanks for the tip and thank you for your work with Moo!

By: Aaron Newton

Aaron Newton — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 07:36:43 +0000

Nice work (as usual).

1) Regarding the comment above about errant console log statements, might I suggest the Clientcide dbug plugin? It’s super tiny, and it insulates you from accidentally publishing code with log statements. It’s never good to to leave a bunch of log statements in code, but every now and then we all miss one sooner or later. dbug makes these not throw errors in browsers without firebug.

2) Just a little nit-pick, but its generally considered a convention in JavaScript to use upper case names for any function that is meant to be used as a constructor. I don’t know if you do this elsewhere in your code, but it’s a big help for anyone using your stuff. It’s all too easy to leave off the “new” in front of a function that isn’t.

Sorry, don’t mean to nag…

By: theBagg

theBagg — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 01:49:14 +0000

What would be better would be a noticeable graphical drag and highlight box, that when dragged over labels and checkboxes it performs the function. It took me a while to actually work out you have to hit the checkbox first. Very clever though.

By: Fredrik Bränström

Fredrik Bränström — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:52:52 +0000

It should work on the labels as well. And there should be a tooltip or something, maybe just a yellow notice box on the side, to alert the user of this, since it’s unexpected behavior.

By: david

david — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:30:37 +0000

@Ryan: Thanks

@Benjamin Sterling: Fixed that issue. We're all good now.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:27:27 +0000

Now that’s an excellent class!

Just to note: remove the console.log’s!

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:58:15 +0000

Clever. What advantage does this have over shift click?

By: Elmas

Elmas — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:55:46 +0000

Just an idea. Like setting visibility to layers in photoshop. If you make a first layer visible, then all the other layer that you hover on will get the same state.

So, difference would be that the toggle would not inverse the state of each and every checkbox but only follow the first state when we clicked.

Example: If 2nd checkbox is checked and others are not. When i click on the first checkbox and drag. I end up with all of them checked but the 2nd one unchecked.

I hope you understood what i mean, i wanted to make it as short as possible.