Allow widgets to not always pull up

[ericop]

Allow widgets to not always pull up

[ericop]

@dsmorse not sure how interested you are in adding some features for pay. We'd obviously give you more clear acceptance criteria, and you could merge these features back into the open source repo. We are just a small shop and and trying to get what we want for usability out of Gridster is spreading us a little thin. Shoot me an email if you're interested in some sort of arrangement along these lines. We love sponsoring good open-source!

Two main features we're looking at:

• Allow widgets to be placed anywhere and have them not slide upwards, but stay put
• Only have widget collision move the widget underneath after mouseup (i.e., not have cards move from collision while dragging, but only the widget your player's placeholder is over over when you're done.)

http://recordit.co/H9kFmk9tOy displays the features I'm talking about, but they are in the month old version of Gridster and we'd love to have them as toggle options and have the auto-scroll and some of the other newness working for us, from your current build.

[dsmorse]

I'm not opposed to such an arrangement and I could see those as good features.. but it would depend on your timelines, as I've got my deliveries to coordinate too. Since it looks like you have it working in an older code base it shouldn't be that difficult to get it on the latest.

[ericop]

I am CCing George, on of the guys in charge over hear who was the
originator of this good idea. He can hopefully weigh in on the time line
and financial aspects.

wait_for_mouseup is the option I added in the old one to avoid updating
widgets every collision as seen in this commit
ericop@b544741
. One known issue is that since the widgets aren't updating on_drag, when
the active player being dragged overlaps part of his original position when
you're done with the drag, it snaps back to its original location from
before the drag.

[ericop]

Also just for pin-point clarity, the goal is just to move the last widget that you drop the player on, not to retroactively move all the widgets you hovered or dragged over in the process.

[ericop]

We would like to have the change done by June 1st. Is that possible?

[dsmorse]

Due to conflicts with my own release schedule, I won't be able to commit to that deadline: but I took some time to look at your changes, check out the beta demo: http://dsmorse.github.io/gridster.js/demos/sticky-postion.html

[ericop]

Thanks man. Even what you've added is a great leap ahead. We'll try it out locally.

Thanks for your passion to the jQuery-plugins community and trying to keep the features rolling out! You rock ❕

[ericop]

@dsmorse So for widget "8" on http://jsbin.com/zunuqiwefe/1/edit?html,console,output I've notived that he isn't initialized to his spot properly. I'll look at it too, but if you know where we need to modify the initialize logic I'd welcome it.

[ericop]

[dsmorse]

Yeah, I did say beta (right?) I've also noticed in this config an error with the larger component not pushing enough space if there is an opening.... The things stay where you put them works well, the things move is clearly buggy. And it appears that the init logicstill has some 'push to the top' logic in register_widget which is why 8 is sliding to row 3 vs row 4 where we told him to go.

[ericop]

Totally understandable. I'm with you on "a step at a time", just wanted to show you in case you didn't try it out on your speedy weekend beta work.

[dsmorse]

a better beta is available.. but I'm not sure I'll have more time to firm it up. http://dsmorse.github.io/gridster.js/demos/sticky-postion.html

[ericop]

Cool man, that is better.
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a better beta is available.. but I'm not sure I'll have more time to firm
it up. http://dsmorse.github.io/gridster.js/demos/sticky-postion.html

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@dsmorse

That's working great for me.

And thanks for keeping this project alive! You're doing an awesome job!