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Mastering jQuery UI

You're reading from   Mastering jQuery UI Become an expert in creating real-world Rich Internet Applications using the varied components of jQuery UI

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2015
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ISBN-13 9781783286652
Length 312 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Vijay Joshi Vijay Joshi
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Designing a Simple Quiz Application FREE CHAPTER 2. Building a Jigsaw Puzzle Game 3. Creating a Website Tour 4. Creating a Tabbed News Reader 5. Implementing CAPTCHA using Draggable and Droppable 6. Creating an Event Timeline Using a Slider 7. Using jQuery UI with Google Maps API 8. Creating a Photo Album Manager 9. Creating Widgets Using the Widget Factory 10. Building a Color Picker with Hex RGB Conversion 11. Creating a Fully Functional Dashboard A. Best Practices for Developing with jQuery UI Index

Getting code structure ready


We will begin by identifying and declaring all the methods required for all the operations. We will first have to retrieve the JSON from the server. Then we will display album names in the left-hand-side panel. After this, we will attach several event handlers for operations such as displaying the pictures of an album, edit image, delete, and so on.

Start with the following code structure in your js/photoAlbum.js file, which defines an object literal to wrap the functionality for the album manager and a document ready handler for jQuery:

var albums = 
{
  jsonAlbums : null,
  currentAlbum : null,
  currentPictureId : null,
  initialize : function()
  {
    $.getJSON( "albums.json", function(data) 
    {
      albums.jsonAlbums = data;
      albums.fillAlbumNames();
      albums.addEventHandlers();
    });
  },
  fillAlbumNames : function()
  {
  },
  addEventHandlers : function()
  {    
    
  },
  displayAlbum : function(albumId)
  {
  },
  editImage : function...
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