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15 May 04

There were several minor fixes and updates to X v3.15.2. Thanks very much to everyone that contributed suggestions and bug-fixes.

14 May 04

I've been studying Javascript Closures. It seems that I've been implementing some of my objects inefficiently - I may have even been creating circular references (not sure about that yet). None of this affects the X core - its as solid as ever :-). I'll be (slowly) re-visiting all of the X demos and applying the new things I've learned. Resources: Private Members by Douglas Crockford, Javascript Closures and Private Static Members by Richard Cornford.

• The X Function Reference.
• Tips for upgrading from previous versions.
• More X docs coming soon

• Menus
  • xMenu4 with Horizontal and Vertical main labels. Cascading menus from nested ULs.
  • xMenu 3 - unlimited cascading sub-menus; horz/vert; floating, absolute or relative; multiple menus.
  • xMenu 2 - horizontal or vertical; floating, absolute or relative; multiple menus on the same page; different widths for each label and box.
  • Floater - menu floats vertically onscroll.
• Collapsible 3-Column Layout - Using an unmodified layout from BlueRobot.com (I just added a little js).
• Equal Column Heights - my version of a demo featured in a SitePoint article.
• Downgradeable Layout - simple example of a dynamic, downgradable DHTML layout.
• xBar - horizontal or vertical, scaled bar-graph object.
• Key Events - move an element with the arrow keys and watch keyCode values from all Key events.
• Drag Demo - drag events implmented with X: dragStart, drag, and dragEnd.
• Slideouts - yep, they slide out when you mouseover their related element.
• Popup Demo - the implementation of xPopup demonstrates the use of the xTimer object.
• Image Viewport - an animated clipping demo.
• Tooltips
  • Tooltips 1 - tooltips that slide in from the left. The tooltip text is taken from the trigger element's TITLE attribute.
  • xTooltipGroup - tooltips are positioned to the right or top of the trigger element, or follow the mouse. The tooltip text is taken from the trigger element's TITLE attribute - or you can optionally provide your own text (as html).
• xWalkTree - node traversal demo.

CBE was great fun, but now I concentrate mainly on X. Soon, X will do almost everything CBE would do - with much smaller file sizes. I probably won't make any more updates to CBE. If you're having problems with a CBE application come to the forums and we'll help.

• The CBE Object Reference.
• Getting Started with CBE.
• The CBE Core Object Model.
• The CBE Event Model.