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I was afraid I might be hijacking the thread to I started a new one.

I followed Walter’s instructions for getting this working and it worked like a charm. I’m very pleased.

I didn’t have Protaculous so I downloaded it and installed it before I started.

Now I’m wondering what Protaculous is really for and where and for what else I’d use it for?

Any explanations would really be appreciated by the new user of FWPro.

Thanks,
Martin
Signal Mountain, TN

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I wrote Protaculous when I started getting seriously into Prototype/
Scriptaculous work a couple years ago. Basically, it’s a way to get
you started adding rich interaction to your Freeway pages. It uploads
the two libraries and links them to your page, it provides a couple of
canned “listener” functions to attach your own code to the page, and
that’s it.

Protaculous (the Action bundle) also includes the Observer Action and
the Carousel Actions.

Observer is just like Protaculous, except it is an item-action. That
is, you apply it to an item on your page rather than to the page
itself. Using Observer, you attach an event listener to a particular
page element, and then when that event fires, the script you’ve put
inside Observer is called forth to do something.

Carousel probably doesn’t belong in this Action at all, it’s gone on
to have a life of its own, and I’ll probably carve it out into its own
stand-alone Action some day. I won’t go into detail about it, you
should read the documentation and try the example on ActionsForge.

So Protaculous and Observer are geek-level tools, useful primarily if
you can write your own code or find an example on the Web somewhere
and figure out how to use it. They provide the launching pad for
taking hand-coded JavaScript into Freeway and making it dance and sing.

Walter

On Feb 4, 2011, at 1:36 PM, Rice Martin wrote:

I was afraid I might be hijacking the thread to I started a new one.

I followed Walter’s instructions for getting this working and it
worked like a charm. I’m very pleased.

I didn’t have Protaculous so I downloaded it and installed it before
I started.

Now I’m wondering what Protaculous is really for and where and for
what else I’d use it for?

Any explanations would really be appreciated by the new user of FWPro.

Thanks,
Martin
Signal Mountain, TN

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That is so cool, Walter. I’m really glad to know about this even though I don’t write my own code yet. But I can see that having this tool available really is a way to make, as you say, Freeway “dance and sing.” I will read the documentation as you suggest and try the example.

Thanks for taking the time to explain this for me.

Martin

On Feb 4, 2011, at 1:44 PM, Walter Lee Davis wrote:

I wrote Protaculous when I started getting seriously into Prototype/Scriptaculous work a couple years ago. Basically, it’s a way to get you started adding rich interaction to your Freeway pages. It uploads the two libraries and links them to your page, it provides a couple of canned “listener” functions to attach your own code to the page, and that’s it.

Protaculous (the Action bundle) also includes the Observer Action and the Carousel Actions.

Observer is just like Protaculous, except it is an item-action. That is, you apply it to an item on your page rather than to the page itself. Using Observer, you attach an event listener to a particular page element, and then when that event fires, the script you’ve put inside Observer is called forth to do something.

Carousel probably doesn’t belong in this Action at all, it’s gone on to have a life of its own, and I’ll probably carve it out into its own stand-alone Action some day. I won’t go into detail about it, you should read the documentation and try the example on ActionsForge.

So Protaculous and Observer are geek-level tools, useful primarily if you can write your own code or find an example on the Web somewhere and figure out how to use it. They provide the launching pad for taking hand-coded JavaScript into Freeway and making it dance and sing.

Walter

On Feb 4, 2011, at 1:36 PM, Rice Martin wrote:

I was afraid I might be hijacking the thread to I started a new one.

I followed Walter’s instructions for getting this working and it worked like a charm. I’m very pleased.

I didn’t have Protaculous so I downloaded it and installed it before I started.

Now I’m wondering what Protaculous is really for and where and for what else I’d use it for?

Any explanations would really be appreciated by the new user of FWPro.

Thanks,
Martin
Signal Mountain, TN

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