# Helping with scriptaculous/Thomas Fuchs MIA?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/helping-with-scriptaculous-thomas-fuchs-mia/53418>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [February 4, 2006, 5:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/helping-with-scriptaculous-thomas-fuchs-mia/53418 "2006-02-04T17:35:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![dracos](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/ea666f/32.png) [@dracos](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dracos)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 5:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/helping-with-scriptaculous-thomas-fuchs-mia/53418/1 "2006-02-04T17:35:07Z")

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Hi,

In the last few days I’ve been working a lot on rewriting the  
dragdrop.js code. I’ve made changes for what I think is stronger  
object-oriented design and made more parallels between how Droppbables  
and Draggables are coded and instantiated. I have multiple selection  
and dragging of draggables working and droppables can accept multiple  
draggables in one drop. There are some other little changes too.

The backwards compatiable rewrite is not quite ready for release yet.  
I have to clean up some details and then make sure that Sortables is  
still working. I think soon I’ll have it all working so that I can  
easily build something like Finder on my Mac. A very cool drag-drop  
admin interface for store.rb project.

Of course I’d like to make all these changes available to the Rails  
world. I’ve tried twice this week to email Thomas F. at  
removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid but I’ve had no response. Is that the correct address  
to send the new dragdrop.js?

Thanks,  
Peter

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**Author:** ![dracos](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/ea666f/32.png) [@dracos](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dracos)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2006, 10:24am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/helping-with-scriptaculous-thomas-fuchs-mia/53418/2 "2006-02-05T10:24:29Z")

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Peter M. wrote:

> Of course I’d like to make all these changes available to the Rails  
> world. I’ve tried twice this week to email Thomas F. at  
> removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid but I’ve had no response. Is that the correct address  
> to send the new dragdrop.js?

You could try the scriptaculous mailing list

[http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails-spinoffs](http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails-spinoffs)

Jonathan

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**Author:** ![dracos](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/ea666f/32.png) [@dracos](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dracos)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 8:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/helping-with-scriptaculous-thomas-fuchs-mia/53418/3 "2006-04-12T20:14:05Z")

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Hi Peter,  
I would be very interested in what you are working on. Could you  
send me a copy of your code? Do you have a demo running ?

PW  
On 4-Feb-06, at 11:32 AM, Peter M. wrote:

> I have to clean up some details and then make sure that Sortables is  
> Peter
> 
> * * *
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> Rails mailing list  
> removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid  
> [http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails](http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails)

Peter W.  
removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid

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**Author:** ![dracos](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/ea666f/32.png) [@dracos](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dracos)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 8:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/helping-with-scriptaculous-thomas-fuchs-mia/53418/4 "2006-04-12T20:23:18Z")

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On 4/12/06, Peter W. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> Hi Peter,  
> I would be very interested in what you are working on. Could you  
> send me a copy of your code? Do you have a demo running ?
> 
> PW

Hi Peter,

I became frustrated with the code. These days I don’t like Prototype  
much. I have decided to go in another direction with my project  
(Yahoo! UI). However I was almost finished the rewrite to the  
scriptaculous dragdrop library. It takes care of many tickets and  
other improvements. It is still buggy but if someone wants to continue  
my work they can have the code I produced. The frustration came from  
the buggy positioning which I think came from outside the dragdrop  
script.

I will email you a demo of the buggy code that I sent to another person.

Peter