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 Post subject: jQuery Growl clone
PostPosted: Tue Apr 27, 2010 5:47 pm 
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Hi All,

I wanted a Growl-like notification system for an app I'm building, but.. for some reason I can't think of right now I didn't like jGrowl - likely the styling options.

Anyway, I rolled my own. This isn't a proper jQuery plugin, but it does use jQuery to simplify specifying elements & doing animations.

Edit: After some input from ~pytrin, I've posted some cleaner updated code below.

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var Notify = {
        displayFor:2000,
        animationDuration:750,
        show:function(text){
                if($("#notify-wrapper").length == 0)
                        $('body').append('<div id = "notify-wrapper"></div>');
               
                var date = new Date();
                var id = "notifier-"+date.valueOf()+'-'+text.replace(/\W/g,'_');
                $("#notify-wrapper").append('<div id = '+id+' class = "notification">'+text+'</div>');
                $("#"+id).click(function(){ Notify.hide($(this).attr('id')); });
                setTimeout("Notify.hide('"+id+"')",this.displayFor);
        },
        hide:function(id){
                $("#"+id).slideUp(this.animationDuration,function(){ $(this).remove(); });
        }
}


Accompanying CSS
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/* This is the container the notifications get placed into */
#notify-wrapper{
        position:fixed;
        right:0;
        top:0;
        width:200px;
        padding:5px;
}
/* Each "Growl"/notification gets the .notification class */
#notify-wrapper .notification{
        -moz-border-radius:5px;
        -webkit-border-radius:5px;
        border-radius:5px;
        background-color:#000;
        background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.7);
        color:#FFF;
        padding:5px;
        cursor:pointer;
        margin-bottom:5px;
}


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Notify.show('Record deleted');

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Eran
 Post subject: Re: jQuery Growl clone
PostPosted: Tue Apr 27, 2010 6:08 pm 
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Nice snippet. If I may suggest an improvement, there is no need for generating a unique ID for each notification
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show:function(text){
        var self = this;
        if($("#notify-wrapper").length == 0) {
                $('body').append('<div id="notify-wrapper"></div>');
        }
        var notification = $('<div class="notification">' + text + '</div>').appendTo('#notify-wrapper');
        notification.click(function() {self.hide(this);});
        window.setTimeout(function(){self.hide(notification);},this.displayFor);
},
hide:function(notification){
        $(notification).slideUp(this.animationDuration,function(){ $(this).remove(); });
}
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pickle
 Post subject: Re: jQuery Growl clone
PostPosted: Wed Apr 28, 2010 9:51 am 
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Actually, I think there is. In Firefox (and in most of the examples of setTimeout() I've seen online), the first argument to setTimeout() must be a string. Therefore the argument passed to hide() must be representable by a string.

Substituting the first argument to setTimeout() for a function like you've done apparently doesn't work in IE.

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 Post subject: Re: jQuery Growl clone
PostPosted: Wed Apr 28, 2010 11:12 am 
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I've been using this approach for a long time now, and I'm confident it works in all browsers. You can pass a string, but using a callback is also possible
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/window.setTimeout

Did you try it? I tested it and it worked fine for me.
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 Post subject: Re: jQuery Growl clone
PostPosted: Wed Apr 28, 2010 11:25 am 
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I didn't test it because all I'd seen led me to believe what I wrote above. Plus, testing it requires me to fire up a Windows box (blech).

However, you are certainly write - it works. Below is the updated code. I made a couple changes from what you wrote. Namely, I don't use "self", use the new jQuery 1.4 syntax for creating elements, and don't wrap "notification" in another $() wrapper, as it's already a jQuery object.

Thanks for the advice - it does clean up the code a bit.

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var Notify = {
        displayFor:2000,
        animationDuration:750,
        show:function(text){
                if($("#notify-wrapper").length == 0)
                        $('body').append('<div id = "notify-wrapper"></div>');
               
                var notification = $("<div>",{
                        "class":"notification",
                        "text":text,
                        "click":function(){ Notify.hide($(this)); }
                        }).appendTo($("#notify-wrapper"));
               
                setTimeout(function(){Notify.hide(notification);},this.displayFor);
        },
        hide:function(notification){
                notification.slideUp(this.animationDuration,function(){ $(this).remove(); });
        }
}

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Last edited by pickle on Wed Apr 28, 2010 2:39 pm, edited 1 time in total.
wrapped "this" in the click function with $()


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Eran
 Post subject: Re: jQuery Growl clone
PostPosted: Wed Apr 28, 2010 11:31 am 
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Quote:
I don't use "self"

self is a reference for the container object. Just in case you decide to rename 'Notify' you don't have to update explicit references to it. It's proven useful in my experience, but it's just my preference of course
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and don't wrap "notification" in another $() wrapper, as it's already a jQuery object.

Notice that inside the click event, 'this' is the HTML element and not a jQuery object, so you'd have to wrap it there instead if you remove it from the hide() function
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 Post subject: Re: jQuery Growl clone
PostPosted: Wed Apr 28, 2010 2:39 pm 
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pytrin wrote:
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and don't wrap "notification" in another $() wrapper, as it's already a jQuery object.

Notice that inside the click event, 'this' is the HTML element and not a jQuery object, so you'd have to wrap it there instead if you remove it from the hide() function


Duh - of course. Code has been updated.

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