Fx.Slide - Modification to reverse direction of slide

[kenjin@…]

This is only meant to be helpful so if there is a design decision not to make the Fx.Slide work in the reverse direction I couldn't find a reference to it.

The change means an Fx.Slide can take an optional extra argument of { direction: 'normal' } or { direction: 'reverse' }, which will reverse the direction of the sliding animation.

I patched revision 743 with the changes and the diff can be found at

http://www.kenjinx.com/mootools_slide.diff

Hopefully the coding style is in keeping with the rest of mootools.

Demos can be found at

http://www.kenjinx.com/slide_example.html
&
http://www.kenjinx.com/slide_example_horizontal.html

There is a bug with the layout in the horizontal example, where the returning content from the slide in displays above the border; so if anyone can point out why that's broken that would be nice of them. I don't think that's a problem with the javascript itself so I'm all ears as to what people think that is.

Note that I don't have access to a windows box so the layout of my page may totally broken on both flavours of IE. Actually the chances are pretty high given the hackery with z-index.

[ibolmo]

Will be considered for 1.3's Effects cleanup/enhancement.

[kamicane]

Fx.Slide in reverse direction doesnt make any sense.

Its either a container with a fixed height, in which case you use top / left values, or just a height change, in which case you use Fx.Style / Fx.Tween.

Slide should only cover those situations where a margin change is required.

[anonymous]

I disagree - it simple makes sense to be able to do a slide in from the left or from the right, from the top or from the bottom.

[anonymous]

let me provide an example - you have a lightbox containing form. You complete the first fieldset, you might want it to slide out to the left to make room for the next fieldset sliding in from the right.

[kamicane]

Thats not a slide effect, thats a "left" effect on an absolutely positioned element.

Fx.Slide is specifically made for non-absolutely positioned elements, it makes no sense having other direction other than those that follow the page flow.

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