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Jan 23 08:17:13 <Cage1___> morning!
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Jan 23 10:40:40 <Garfonso> is there a list anywhere for the names of included sources? Why does enyo.Jsonpsource react to "jsonp"? And how is the localStorage source called? :(
Jan 23 10:53:14 <Garfonso> ok.. I understood now.. I have to create the sources myself?
Jan 23 10:59:21 <Garfonso> hm.. somehow the doc is a bit broken for me or important parts are missing. For example collection->comperator does not really explain how that method should look (i.e. what parameters, what return is expected). It has a "see also" that mentions "enyo.Collection~Comparator", but clicking on it does nothing.
Jan 23 11:00:02 <Garfonso> Is that just me? Or is this information missing? What does the link in the see also section do? Similar is for the options-parameter. Can't find a description of it. :-/
Jan 23 16:38:49 <sugardave> Garfonso: it looks like you can define a comparator functionand it will be used if you collection.sort without passing a sorting function
Jan 23 16:39:15 <sugardave> so, comparator should behave like Array.sort
Jan 23 17:39:47 <trex0051> G'day enyoers.  I have a string that contains a control's name "app.$.dataCollectionName".  How can I access the control itself?
Jan 23 17:41:02 <trex0051> I know if it was just "dataCollectionName" I could do app.$[dataCollectionNameString], but I don't know how to do that when it contains the top level variable.
Jan 23 17:41:07 <GodGinrai> trex0051: well, I know a bad practice way to do it
Jan 23 17:41:12 <GodGinrai> but...
Jan 23 17:41:13 <trex0051> eval?
Jan 23 17:41:15 <GodGinrai> yea
Jan 23 17:41:23 <GodGinrai> why do you have that string?
Jan 23 17:42:01 <trex0051> I have a kind that accepts the dataCollection as a value
Jan 23 17:43:33 <GodGinrai> so how did you get a string?
Jan 23 17:44:23 <trex0051> I pass it to the kind that way {kind:"myKind",dataCollection:"app.$.dataCollectionName"}
Jan 23 17:44:38 <GodGinrai> why?
Jan 23 17:44:50 <GodGinrai> just pass the data collection
Jan 23 17:45:24 <trex0051> well, the datarepeater takes the collection as a string for one.
Jan 23 17:45:34 <trex0051> also, I thought you could only pass strings
Jan 23 17:45:35 <trex0051> :)
Jan 23 17:46:14 <GodGinrai> o.o
Jan 23 17:46:27 <trex0051> If I can pass the collection itself, is there a way that I can get the string designation to pass to the dataRepeater.
Jan 23 17:46:59 <GodGinrai> dataRepeater does not take a string...
Jan 23 17:50:39 <trex0051> Looking at a sample from sugardave, I see he init's the collection and then passes it via set("controller",TheCollection);  I suppose I could do that :) So, can I pass the dataCollection in the kind's decleration, or do I need to create the kind and then set the dataCollection?
Jan 23 18:13:14 <sugardave> "controller"?  that's OLD code :D
Jan 23 18:14:28 <sugardave> trex0051: simpistic answer:   this["app.$.dataCollectionName"]  can also work
Jan 23 18:15:50 <sugardave> but I would investigate other ways, personally....maybe later you can show me some code
Jan 23 18:17:42 <sugardave> trex0051: to your last question, you can set the collection in the kind's declaration, but if it's a kind you made (not something like DataList/Repeater), then you might need to do something in your kind's collectionChanged method to do some things....it just depends on what you're trying to do
Jan 23 18:19:21 <trex0051> Thanks sugardave.  The controller is how I set the collection that the DataRepeater is using.  Is there a different way?
Jan 23 18:20:26 <trex0051> Now that I'm setting the controller by passing it to the kind, the DataRepeater seems to not be populating properly.
Jan 23 18:20:44 <sugardave> what Enyo version?
Jan 23 18:21:05 <trex0051> 2.5.1
Jan 23 18:21:22 <sugardave> so controller is an arbitrary property you made for your kind?
Jan 23 18:21:51 <sugardave> (I think nothing internally uses a controller property to set up an enyo.Controller)
Jan 23 18:22:04 <trex0051> No, it's something from enyo.DataRepeater
Jan 23 18:22:13 <sugardave> hmm, let me look at something
Jan 23 18:23:09 <sugardave> trex0051: you got a paste/fiddle?
Jan 23 18:23:38 <trex0051> let me give you a paste of my kind.  It'd be too hard to get into a fiddle.
Jan 23 18:23:57 <sugardave> it looks like DataRepeater is just setting up a map from controller to collection.  The framework team will tell you to only use the "collection" property on it
Jan 23 18:24:30 <trex0051> http://pastebin.com/pP9fDStJ
Jan 23 18:26:42 <sugardave> trex0051: I would totally use bindings for this
Jan 23 18:26:58 <dmanderson> bindings ftw!
Jan 23 18:27:01 <sugardave> {from: "dataCollection", to: "$.dataCollection.collection"}
Jan 23 18:27:49 <trex0051> would that be on the DataRepeater Kind?
Jan 23 18:28:16 <sugardave> no, you would have a bindings:[] on IFO.ImageBoard kind
Jan 23 18:28:51 <sugardave> then that biding would essentially read "from this.dataCollection to my DataRepeater's collection"
Jan 23 18:30:01 <trex0051> and that would replace my code in create that assigns the dataCollections controller?
Jan 23 18:30:28 <sugardave> yep
Jan 23 18:31:57 <trex0051> and then when I include the kind ( http://pastebin.com/UZs3yitG ), do I still need to assign the collection on the create?
Jan 23 18:32:26 <trex0051> include = use
Jan 23 18:33:52 <sugardave> I would probably do it where I declare the WishlistBoard kind.  So, it would be {kind: "WishlistBoard", dataCollection: "app.$.wishlistBoardCollection"}
Jan 23 18:33:54 <trex0051> Well, doing it the binding way made my app actually work :)
Jan 23 18:34:05 <sugardave> then you can kill the create override completely
Jan 23 18:34:29 <sugardave> exellent!
Jan 23 18:34:35 <sugardave> s/exe/exce/
Jan 23 18:34:49 <sugardave> oh, we lost our bot?  booooooo
Jan 23 18:35:10 <trex0051> Then, passing by a string I have my origional problem.  Would you then use the this[dataCollection] within the kind when I need to manipulate the collection directly?
Jan 23 18:36:11 <sugardave> I think I am confused about your problem....on a meeting for a bit, we can revisit later
Jan 23 18:36:18 <trex0051> Thanks
Jan 23 18:41:31 <trex0051> this["app.$.wishlistBoardCollection"] doesn't seem to work :(
Jan 23 18:42:13 <trex0051> anyone else know a way to access a global variable without using eval if you have it as a string?
Jan 23 18:55:07 <dmanderson> trex0051 you could use Array.prototype.reduce, example : http://jsfiddle.net/toxigenicpoem/04voss17/
Jan 23 19:08:00 <trex0051> thanks dmanderson.  Trying to wrap my mind around that :)
Jan 23 19:08:09 <dmanderson> np!
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