[Dancer-users] Flash Message

[Puneet Kishor]

On Tuesday, January 11, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Puneet Kishor wrote:

> 
> On Tuesday, January 11, 2011 at 2:22 PM, damien krotkine wrote:
> 
> > On 11 January 2011 19:44, Puneet Kishor <punk.kish at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > On Tuesday, January 11, 2011 at 11:48 AM, damien krotkine wrote:
> > > 
> > > I've re-implemented it to be more Rails-like, as sukria said.
> > > 
> > > https://github.com/dams/Dancer-Plugin-FlashMessage
> > > 
> > > and on CPAN, pending mirrors refresh.
> > > 
> > > The funny part of the story ? the effective code is only 30 lines
> > > long. Talking about Perl and Dancer expressiveness...
> > > 
> > > Great job, and thanks! But, I don't really understand the point of this
> > > flash message (for the longest time I thought it was something to do with
> > > Adobe Flash). Is there a demo of it in action that I can see? I am trying to
> > > visualize which nail I can bang in with this hammer. Where would I use this,
> > > and how?
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > Hm, for example these nice yellow pop up saying "row deleted", and
> > which fade out after few seconds...
> > 
> > So basically it's some kind of messages to alert / inform the user
> > after an action.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> I was guessing as much, but wasn't sure. Thanks for confirming. 
> 
> 
> I have been implementing this functionality via Ajax and jQuery (I tried a bunch, including Gritter [1]), but have now settled on jBar [2], and am very happy with it (there are tons of Growl-type jQuery plugins). The process flow is very simple --
> 
> 
> a. user does something (logs in, logs out, or saves or deletes a record by clicking on a button)
> b. an Ajax query is fired that is trapped by a Dancer get/post, as appropriate
> c. a return value is sent back that jQuery catches, and fires a jBar message
> 
> 
> There is nothing unusual on Dancer side. There is this little snippet on the client side
> 
> 
> C = {
> save: function() {
> $.ajax({
> url : this.config.uri + "/save",
> type : "POST",
> data : query_str,
> dataType: "json",
> error : function() { alert("Error loading html document"); },
> success : function(rc) {
> (rc === "0") ? C.growl("Error", "Failed to save") : C.growl("Success", "Saved successfully");
> }
> }});
> },
> 
> growl: function(title, text) {
> $.fn.bar({
> color : '#1E90FF',
> background_color : '#FFFFFF',
> removebutton  : false,
> message : text,
> time  : 4000
> });
> }
> };
> 
> 
> Nothing against the plugin, but I just want to make sure I am not missing out on any goodie that I am not recognizing.
> 
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> 
> 
> 
> [1] http://boedesign.com/blog/2009/07/11/growl-for-jquery-gritter/
> [2] http://tympanus.net/codrops/2009/10/29/jbar-a-jquery-notification-plugin/
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Just realized, I am tried both Gritter and jBar (noted above), but ended up using a much simpler notification plugin found at http://www.programmingmind.com/jquery-notification-v1.1


Puneet. 


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