Rails spinoffs - Aug 2005 - Drag-N-Drop Event Sinking With Remote Call

All,

I''m new to Ruby so please excuse me if this issue has been addressed.
My question pertains to performing image drag-n-drop event sinkings that fire
off remote asynchronous server calls. Has anyone gotten this to work? If so, can
you point me in a direction to obtain some sample code/on-line resources. Much
Thanks

Chris Alexander
Senior Software Engineer
Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

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If this does not exist, I am willing to contribute... do we have life out there?

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All, 

I''m new to Ruby so please excuse me if this issue has been addressed.
My question pertains to performing image drag-n-drop event sinkings that fire
off remote asynchronous server calls. Has anyone gotten this to work? If so, can
you point me in a direction to obtain some sample code/on-line resources. Much
Thanks

Chris Alexander 
Senior Software Engineer 
Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 

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On 22/08/05, Alexander, Chris <calexander@lexpharma.com> wrote:
> My
> question pertains to performing image drag-n-drop event sinkings that fire
> off remote asynchronous server calls.
If you mean a remote call on drop, I believe the shopping cart demo
does just that.

Bye,
  Martin

On 22/08/05, Alexander, Chris <calexander@lexpharma.com> wrote:
> do we have life out there?
A little impassioned, no?

Martin,

My passion for the issue is evident, yes? Probably too much coffee this morning
and every morning :)

Yes, I did take a look at the demo and it does illustrate asynchronisity AFTER
event sinking. The question was coming from the "Wish" list issue of
providing the asynchronous method call as an event parameter, allowing the event
to kick off the call internally. I would be willing to contribute toward making
such overloaded events (or some other mechanism) happen. I simply would like to
contribute to this "Wish" list issue if it has not already been
addressed. The implications are significant for RIAs (we do science apps here).

Do you know the status of this issue? Thanks.

-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Bialasinski [mailto:klingeling@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, August 22, 2005 3:33 PM
To: Alexander, Chris
Cc: rails-spinoffs@lists.rubyonrails.org
Subject: Re: [Rails-spinoffs] Drag-N-Drop Event Sinking With Remote Call


On 22/08/05, Alexander, Chris <calexander@lexpharma.com> wrote:
> do we have life out there?
A little impassioned, no?

On 22/08/05, Alexander, Chris <calexander@lexpharma.com> wrote:
> Yes, I did take a look at the demo and it does illustrate asynchronisity
AFTER event
> sinking. 
What do you mean by "sinking"?
> The question was coming from the "Wish" list issue of providing
the asynchronous
> method call as an event parameter
I cannot reach the wiki, so for which event should this be?
> Do you know the status of this issue? Thanks.
No, sorry. Thomas would know. But usually, the wiki says if someone
notified Thomas that he is working on an issue.

Bye,
  Martin

Martin,

Now that the wiki is back up check out the first item under Wishlist. Let me
know where things stand in reference to contributions.

Thanks.

-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Bialasinski [mailto:klingeling@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2005 10:03 AM
To: Alexander, Chris
Cc: rails-spinoffs@lists.rubyonrails.org
Subject: Re: [Rails-spinoffs] Drag-N-Drop Event Sinking With Remote Call


On 22/08/05, Alexander, Chris <calexander@lexpharma.com> wrote:
> Yes, I did take a look at the demo and it does illustrate asynchronisity
AFTER event
> sinking. 
What do you mean by "sinking"?
> The question was coming from the "Wish" list issue of providing
the asynchronous
> method call as an event parameter
I cannot reach the wiki, so for which event should this be?
> Do you know the status of this issue? Thanks.
No, sorry. Thomas would know. But usually, the wiki says if someone
notified Thomas that he is working on an issue.

Bye,
  Martin

On 23/08/05, Alexander, Chris <calexander@lexpharma.com> wrote:
> Now that the wiki is back up check out the first item under Wishlist.
I still can''t reach the wiki.

502 Bad Gateway
The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server.

Thomas?
> Let me know where things stand in reference to contributions.
I have no idea. I am just a user, hacking away a bit on the thing.
Thomas is the one to tell you more.

But if the wiki does not list anyone as working on it, I would just
start working on it. Heck, if you need this feature badly at on a
deadline, I would code it anyway, so you get the thing you need
finished in time. Contributions to the code need to be of general
usefulness, not just for a specific situation, so they sometimes need
more time. And if you do your own specific thing, it might serve as a
starting point for a general solution.

Bye,
  Martin