Protaculous and Scriptaculous Documentation

Hi, Gang –

I’m starting to explore some of the Scriptaculous and Protaculous actions.

Is there any documentation available for them? I know the new FW5 User Guide has a little bit of information on some of the Scriptaculous actions, but I don’t know where to find more complete information.

Suggestions?

– Jamie Turner


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I don’t have any real documentation yet for the Protaculous stuff.
There is a rudimentary tutorial at the home page: <http://
Carousel in Freeway>

At this point, the actions in Protaculous fall into two categories:

###Geek-friendly
Protaculous: Page-action that attaches the library of your choice to
the page, then allows you to observe the DOM load and Page load
events and add your own hand-written code into those events.

Observer: Item-action that attaches the library of your choice to the
page, then allows you to observe the Click, Double-click, Mouseover,
or Mouseout events on any drawn element on the page, applying your
own hand-written code into those events.

###Designer-friendly
Carousel: Item-action that creates a smooth-scrolling animation
switching between multiple “panes” of information.

Carousel Button: Item-action that creates a forward/back control to
drive the Carousel. Requires that Carousel is applied correctly to a
stack of DIVs, and that same stack is grouped with the control.

Carousel Tab: Item-action that creates a direct navigation control to
drive the Carousel to a particular pane. Same caveats as above.

Older versions of Protaculous included a SmoothScroll Action, but I
have removed that because it had problems that I could not resolve in
creaky/evil windows browsers.

Walter

On Apr 2, 2008, at 9:28 AM, Jamie Turner wrote:

Hi, Gang –

I’m starting to explore some of the Scriptaculous and Protaculous
actions.

Is there any documentation available for them? I know the new FW5
User Guide has a little bit of information on some of the
Scriptaculous actions, but I don’t know where to find more complete
information.

Suggestions?

– Jamie Turner


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Thanks, Walter. As always, I appreciate your help.

Two additional questions:

  1. You reference a “library” in one of your answers. Is that a database of some sort? Code? Neither?
  2. Until they come out with the large Reference Manual for FW5, is there a complete description of all actions that is available? Or should we just consult the Reference Manual for FW4 until the new one comes out?

Thanks,
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On Apr 2, 2008, at 3:31 PM, Jamie Turner wrote:

Two additional questions:

  1. You reference a “library” in one of your answers. Is that a
    database of some sort? Code? Neither?

Prototype and Script.aculo.us are each libraries of JavaScript code.
Prototype paves over the differences between the various browsers’
implementations of JavaScript, and also provides a slew of helpful
utilities to make it easy to write cross-browser code without pain.
Script.aculo.us uses Prototype as a base, then builds on it to create
the sorts of animation and magic effects that you usually have to
stoop to Flash to create.

  1. Until they come out with the large Reference Manual for FW5, is
    there a complete description of all actions that is available? Or
    should we just consult the Reference Manual for FW4 until the new
    one comes out?

The Reference Manual (or as I like to call it, The Great Big Book Of
Everything) may include a list of Actions, it will certainly contain
reference materials for the Softpress-shipped Core Actions, but I
doubt very much that it will have the last word on every Action out
there.

Walter


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