TagDragon 1.1 released! »

FERDY CHRISTANT - MAR 5, 2009 (09:09:51 PM)

The release of TagDragon 1.00 has been slightly demoralizing. Despite the hard work, I've gotten very little feedback (although the feedback that I got was great) and I see the download counters increasing, yet zero customers paying. I guess I could have expected that, I naively made the download page public and asked people to pay the small charity fee first.

Not a thing to keep me up at night though. I have persisted in already making a 1.10 version, which fixes some small glitches, adds a lot of options and even brings an API for fine grained control. The change list:

"max" parameter (controls length of suggestion list) is now also sent to the backend
callback methods added for onrender, onselect and onload. these allow for very fine-grained control in behavior and rendering
you can now return rich objects from your backend, so that you can get for example the id of a text value from the suggestion list
support for alternate rows added
new option: load list only after a minimum amount of characters entered (minChar option)
new option: "doubleclick". Determines whether the suggestion list is loaded upon double clicking in the field
new option: postData. This is a rich object in which you can send additional data params to your backend
autocomplete="off" is no longer needed in your markup, the plugin handles this automatically now
three methods added: show, hide and setopions. These allow you to control the component during runtime
focus is now forced back on field when a value is selected using the mouse
support for single value suggest controls, by setting the value seperator to nothing ('')
bug in delayed loading is fixed: the suggestion list now always syncs based on the typing, no matter how slow or fast the user types
bug when setting an empty value seperator and hitting ENTER inside textarea control fixed