JavaScript - Why Does Alerting A Record Create A Dialogue Box With Only [object Object] Inside It?

I have something that's called with AJAX when the user enters some text (http://askvoke.com). What I want is to execute some javascript within this "frame". If the frame calls something, with say Code:

<script type=\"text/javascript\">
document.write('h');
</script>

in it, then "h" doesn't appear, and neither does anything besides what would normally be shown if I didn't add that.

Anyone have a solution?

Here's my object constuctor:
Code:

function suggest_object(result_id)
{
	this.in_result_div = false;

	this.search_element = document.getElementById(result_id);
}

And the execution code:
Code:

var suggest = new suggest_object(result_id);

document.getElementById(result_id).onmouseover = function(){suggest.in_result_div = true;}

It works as is, but i'd really like to be able to set the onmouseover inside of the object. Something like

Code:

function suggest_object(result_id)
{
	this.in_result_div = false;

	this.search_element = document.getElementById(result_id);

	this.input_element.onmouseover = function()
	{
		this.in_result_div = true;
	}
}

So how can I get the 'this' inside the onmouseover function to refer to the object?

I created a method for displaying an object's properties:

Code:

renderfunction 	= false;

function showProperty (object, property)
{
	document.write  ('<td class="type">' + (typeof object[property])  + '</td>' 
					+ '<td class="name">' + property + '</td>');
	
	document.writeln('<td class="value">' + 
						(
								(typeof object[property] != 'function')
								? object[property]
								:(
										(property != 'showProperties')
										? (
											renderfunction
											? object[property]()
											: ('<span class="self">NOT RENDERED</span>')
											)
										: ('<span class="self">THIS</span>')
								 )
						) 
					+ '</td>');

	
	document.writeln('<td class="hasOwnProperty" >'  
							+ (
									object.hasOwnProperty(property)
									? "Local"
									: "Inherited"
								)
					 	+ '</td>');

	if (typeof object[property] == 'function')
	{
		document.writeln ('<td class="function">' + object[property] + '</td>');
	}
	else
	{
		document.writeln ('<td class="function"> </td>');
	}

}

As long as renderfunction = false, the object is fine coming out of this function.

However, if I change renderfunction to true, all my properties become undefined.

Why isn't this working as I expect it to?

How should I fix it?

Thanks in advance,

-Brian.

I can't get any info from Firebug except that one line, uncaught exception [object Object]. The code fully worked, then I needed to make it dynamically create Sortables from the scriptaculous library based on how many X were in a table in my database, which I've done, and I'm thinking it may be a simple slight parse error of some type, I'm not too good with Javascript, because now my script barely works. I've double checked the script's source code, the PHP variables are exactly what they should be.

Code:

print<<<HERE
               Sortable.create('sortlist$box', { tag: 'img', overlap:'horizontal',constraint:false, containment: $list, dropOnEmpty: true, 
                onChange: function(item) {
                    var list = Sortable.options(item).element;
                    
                    if(changeEffect) changeEffect.cancel();
                    changeEffect = new Effect.Highlight('changeNotification', {restoreColor:"transparent" });
                },
            
            
            
            onDrop: function(item) {
            var thing=Sortable.options(item).element.identify();
            
            var anchors = document.getElementById(thing).childNodes.length-2;
            
            if(anchors > 20){
            alert('This box had 20 creatures in it already, your last action has not been saved.');
            window.location.reload();
            }
            else{
            
            new Ajax.Request("saveImageOrder.php", {
                        method: "post",
                        parameters: { data: Sortable.serialize("sortlist$box") }
                    });
               }   
}               
            });
               
HERE;
$box++;

}
?>
          
        });
    </script>

if you solve this I'll send ya $10 via paypal

This is in reference to Crockford's articles found he

http://javascript.crockford.com/prototypal.html
http://javascript.crockford.com/private.html

I'm attempting to understand the use of privileged methods when used with Object.create. I put together a quick demo (code below) that shows what happens when I use Object.create to create a new object based on one that has a privileged method. The outcome is not pleasant, as changing the value in the first object also changes it in the second. Unless I am reading Crockford's articles incorrectly, this makes Object.create almost useless for anything but objects that have only public members.

I've seen many JavaScript programmers use closures extensively to create private members, and that still holds to be a good programming practice. However I still can't find an elegant way to create inheritance in combination with closures in JavaScript, given downfalls such as the one I mentioned above.

With all of that said I still think Crockford has a nice way of programming, creating factory functions that produce objects, staying away from the prototype property and making the language look more functional.

Here's the code to demonstrate what I'm referring to. Firebug needs to be enabled to view the console.debug output, otherwise convert them to alerts.

Code:

if (typeof Object.create !== 'function') {
    Object.create = function (o) {
        function F() {}
        F.prototype = o;
        return new F();
    };
}

var o = (function() {
	var msg = "hi";
	
	return {
		msg: function(m) {
			if (m === undefined) {
				return msg;
			}
			
			msg = m;
		}
	};
})();

var foo = Object.create(o);
var bar = Object.create(foo);

console.debug(foo.msg());	// "hi"

foo.msg("what?");

console.debug(foo.msg());	// "what?"
console.debug(bar.msg());	// "what?"

I'm writing a program that involves a network of interconnected nodes (or simply objects in my example below). It depends on being able to access properties of an object's linked objects (a bit oddly worded, sorry)...

Problem is I'm not sure how to properly access those properties... see below please.

<script>

//This is an example of a problem im having in my own code...
//I want to access the name of the object within the links array wintin the object...

var objA = {name: "Object A", links: [objB, objC]};
var objB = {name: "Object B", links: [objC, objD, objE]};
var objC = {name: "Object C", links: [objB]};
var objD = {name: "Object D", links: [objE]};
var objE = {name: "Object E", links: [objD]};

//ex: I want to access the name of Object A's first link...
console.log(objA.links[0].name);

</script>

I'm hoping to get "Object B"...
But instead I get: TypeError: Result of expression 'objA.links[0]' [undefined] is not an object.
Is there another way around this? Any thoughts are appreciated.

Hi all,

I'm stumped on finding a way in javascript to create an object factory whose instances are also object factories. In short I want something like that below, but no joy ... any clues?


Code:

function createClass () {
	return new createClass()
	function createClass() {
		return new createInstance ()
		function createInstance () {
			//Default properties, values and methods which might later be extended
		}
	}
}

var createDoor = createClass();
var door1 = createDoor();
var door2 = createDoor();

var createChair = createClass();
var chair1 = createChair ();
var chair2 = createChair ();

Ignore post (if mod, please delete)

Hello together!

I generate html code with jsp. In that jsp there a several framesets and frames. And yes i know, frames are not really up to date but it's an old program and i have to deal with it now. Anyway, in the top frameset i have an onload attribute like onload="load()".

In the function load i want to access the Element.prototype object. But unfortunately typeof Element gives me "undefined". So i looked a little deeper and found that window.toString() gives me "[object]" and not as expected "[object window]" so somehow my window doesn't know that its construcor is Window. window.construcor is "undefined" as well. And i don't have access to the Element object. I really don't know where the error could be. When the page is loaded and i access the same window over the console, then everything is right. But in my function a can't get access to the objects i need.

I also don't know what part of the code could be useful to post here, but maybe someone had a similar problem before? i should say that this problem only occurs in IE8. In IE9 it works perfectly.

Has anyone any idea??

Hello. I have a youtube video that autoplays everytime one opens the webpage containing the video. The only extra parameter that causes the video to autoplay is having the following added at the end of the embed src link: "&autoplay=1" If that is not present or if a zero is present in place of the 1, the video does not autoplay.

I would like the video to play only once per session. If one is visiting the webpage a second time, the parameter above should not be present or the 1 should be a zero.

I am modifying attempting to modify this code: http://www.javascriptkit.com/script/...2/postit.shtml and I am able to get differnt urls to print on screen depending if it's a first visit or not.

Problem 1: I cannot however get this to work in Google Chrome.

Problem 2: When I attempt to get the url to be printed inside the embed src [/B]link, which is inside the object tag, the javascript either gets printed or that portion is ignored. I don't know if this is because of the quotations and the way I am handling them or if because javascript cannot be inserted inside an object tag.

Here is the code:

Code:

<html>
<body>

<br><br>

<script type="text/javascript">

//Post-it only once per browser session? (0=no, 1=yes)
//Specifying 0 will cause postit to display every time page is loaded
var once_per_browser=1
///No need to edit beyond here///
/* var ns4=document.layers
var ie4=document.all
var ns6=document.getElementById&&!document.all

if (ns4)
crossobj=document.layers.postit
else if (ie4||ns6)
crossobj=ns6? document.getElementById("postit") : document.all.postit
function closeit(){
if (ie4||ns6)
crossobj.style.visibility="hidden"
else if (ns4)
crossobj.visibility="hide"
} */

var url = "\"http://www.youtube.com/blah/version=3&hl=en_US&fs=1\"";

function get_cookie(Name) {
  var search = Name + "="
  var returnvalue = "";
  if (document.cookie.length > 0) {
    offset = document.cookie.indexOf(search)
    if (offset != -1) { // if cookie exists
      offset += search.length
      // set index of beginning of value
      end = document.cookie.indexOf(";", offset);
      // set index of end of cookie value
      if (end == -1)
         end = document.cookie.length;
      returnvalue=unescape(document.cookie.substring(offset, end))
      }
   }
  return returnvalue;
}
function showornot(){
if (get_cookie('postdisplay')==''){
showit()
document.cookie="postdisplay=yes"
}
}

function showit(){

url = "\"http://www.youtube.com/blah/version=3&hl=en_US&fs=1&autoplay=1\"";

/*if (ie4||ns6)
crossobj.style.visibility="visible"
else if (ns4)
crossobj.visibility="show" */

} 

if (once_per_browser)
showornot()
else
showit()
</script>


<b>Outside the Object Tag:</b> <br>
<script type="text/javascript">document.write(url);</script>

<br><br>

<b>In the Object Tag</b>
<br><br>

<object width="570" height="250"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/blah?version=3&hl=en_US&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src=<script type="text/javascript">document.write(url);</script> type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="570" height="250" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object>


</body>
</html>

Quote:
menu: function( a, b ) {
$( b ).observe( 'click', function( event ) {
event.stop();
if( $( a ).visible() ) {
$( a ).hide();
$( b ).removeClassName( 'selected' );
document.stopObserving( 'click' );
} else {
$( a ).show();
$( b ).addClassName( 'selected' );
document.observe( 'click', function( e ) {
if( e.target.id != a && e.target.id != b && !Element.descendantOf( e.target, $( a ) ) ) {
$( a ).hide();
$( b ).removeClassName( 'selected' );
document.stopObserving( 'click' );
}
});
}
});

$$( '#' + b + ' > a' ).each( function( element ) {
element.observe( 'click', function( event ) {
$( a ).hide();
$( b ).removeClassName( 'selected' );
document.stopObserving( 'click' );
});
});
}
This work's perfrect accept when i use it with others on the menu it leaves the other ones open, how do i get it to close the open one when i open a new menu..

Thanks.

I am trying to troubleshoot my javascript function below.

Code:

<script type="text/javascript">
function txtboxfill(fillobj) {
    var rChar=String.fromCharCode(13);	
    var myVal = "To: " + this.form.to.value + rChar;
    myVal = myVal + "From: " + this.form.from.value + rChar;
    myVal = myVal + "Subj: " + this.form.subj.value + rChar + rChar;
    myVal = myVal + "Message: ";
    fillobj.value = myVal;
}
</script>

Then I have a text box input field with an Code:

<input type="text" id="tp" name="to" size="34" class="totext" onkeyup="txtboxfill(this.form.msg_area);">

and when I enter text in this field it gives me a 'this.form.to' is null or not an object and does not populate the textarea. BTW, msg_area is the id of my textarea.

Thank you.

Hello, below you will find two objects, background and photo1, which I need help cleaning up a bit. This will eventually be imported using Json but for now during development it sits as is in my script. I need help with a couple things:

- You will notice the 'val' property is identical in both objects. How can I move this into an outside function that each object can share? I'm having trouble bc I couldn't get 'this' to work outside of its current context.

- Second, how can I restructure this so that I can instantiate a new object. So if I wanted to add a new layer I'd like to do something like importLayers.push[new Layer('photo2')]


Code:

        var importLayers = {
            background: {
                layerType: 'background',
                index: 0,
                layerContent: {
                    content: function() {
                        return $(element).find('#background_Content');
                    },
                    width: 850,
                    height: 530,
                    xPos: 0,
                    yPos: -150,
                    skewX: 0,
                    skewY: 0,
                    angle: 0,
                    originX: function() { return (this.sWidth() / 2); },
                    originY: function() { return (this.sHeight() / 2); },
                    scaleX: 1,
                    scaleY: 1,
                    sWidth: function() { return this.width * this.scaleX; },
                    sHeight: function() { return this.height * this.scaleY; },
                    aspect: 0,
                    opacity: 100,
                    val: function(prop, val) {
                        switch(prop)
                        {
                            case 'width':
                                if(plugin.constrain)
                                    this.scaleX = this.scaleY = val / this.width;
                                else
                                    this.scaleX = val / this.width;
                                break;    
                            case 'height':
                                if(plugin.constrain)
                                    this.scaleY = this.scaleX = val / this.height;
                                else
                                    this.scaleY = val / this.height;
                                break;
                            case 'angle':
                                this.angle = val;    
                        }
                        buildTransformation(this, this.content());
                    }                    
                },
            },
            photo1: {
                layerType: 'photo',
                index: 1,
                layerContent: {
                    content: function() {
                        return $(element).find('#photo1_Content');
                    },
                    width: 1920,
                    height: 1280,
                    xPos: 0,
                    yPos: 0,
                    skewX: 0,
                    skewY: 0,
                    angle: 0,
                    originX: function() { return (this.sWidth() / 2); },
                    originY: function() { return (this.sHeight() / 2); },
                    scaleX: .15625,
                    scaleY: .15625,
                    sWidth: function() { return this.width * this.scaleX; },
                    sHeight: function() { return this.height * this.scaleY; },
                    aspect: 0,
                    opacity: 100,
                    val: function(prop, val) {
                        switch(prop)
                        {
                            case 'width':
                                if(plugin.constrain)
                                    this.scaleX = this.scaleY = val / this.width;
                                else
                                    this.scaleX = val / this.width;
                                break;    
                            case 'height':
                                if(plugin.constrain)
                                    this.scaleY = this.scaleX = val / this.height;
                                else
                                    this.scaleY = val / this.height;
                                break;
                            case 'angle':
                                this.angle = val;    
                        }
                        buildTransformation(this, this.content());
                    }
                },
            }
        }
            

​

Code:

function globals()
{
  this.states = "";
}

now I can:

Code:

globals.states = ....

how to extend first code to be able:

Code:

globals.states.something = ....

?

Greetings,

I have a floating object that work find within my page. However, I would like to only show after a button is clicked.

Any ideas how to do this.

Thanks