RJS Queue

Rails
1

Hi,

I’ve been able to succesfully queue page.visual_effect commands in my
RJS templates. Each command will wait to execute until the previous
command is done executing.

But I’d also like to execute a page.replace_html command AFTER the
page.visual_effect commands. I have a series of five DIVs:

div1
div2
div3
div4
div5

When the user clicks on div1, a page.visual_effect command is executed
in div1 disappears. At this point, I want to execute a
page.replace_html command on my divs. Right now, the visual_effect and
replace_html execute in parallel, so you never see the visual_effect
take place.

Can anyone help me with this?

Thanks in advance!

Brandon

2

I hope I’m wrong, but I don’t think that can be done without writing
your own javascript. I’ve asked the same question multiple times but no
answer. Could you post your queued visual effects code. I haven’t
tried to do that with rjs yet.

3

Charlie,

Check out this page for details:

http://www.railsdevelopment.com/2006/01/15/effectqueue/

All I had to do was add the :queue => ‘end’ parameter to the end of my
visual_effect commands. I hope this helps.

Brandon

4

Thank you! I’ve been trying to figure out how to do this but to no
avail!

5

Hi Brandon,

Effects have events you can use to syncronize your other code with them.

For example:

new Effect.BlindDown(‘customer_edit’, {
afterFinish: function(element){alert(‘You can see it now’);}
});

Event names are beforeStart, beforeSetup, beforeUpdate, beforeFinish and
their ‘after’ mates.

Enjoy.

6

Thanks Sergei. I’ll try it out.