The foundation of every great open source project is its community. The MooTools Team creates the base framework code but it's all of you that take the framework and build outstanding plugins. Here are some great plugins and tutorials that have been released recently.
MooEditable is a WYSIWYG editor created by Lim Chee Aun (cheeaun).
MooEditable features the usual bold, italic, strikethrough, and underline controls as well
as the ability to add images, links, and lists.
http://cheeaun.github.com/mooeditable/
The problem: Visual Studio 2008 doesn't provide Intellisense for MooTools. The solution: Darren Waddell (fakedarren).
Darren has created Intellisense for our favorite javascript framework. Grab this package to increase your productivity within
Visual Studio!
http://code.google.com/p/mootoolsintellisense/
Lim Chee Aun (cheeaun) also blessed the MooTools community with PageZoom, a flexible zooming widget
that allows you to zoom in on any element within the page. The plugin is especially valuable for zooming in on
photos.
http://cheeaun.github.com/pagezoom/
Tobias Svensson has created NotificationCenter, a simple implementation of a notification center for MooTools which is heavily inspired by NSNotificationCenter from Apple's Cocoa framework.
http://return42.blogspot.com/2009/07/notification-message-dispatch-for.html
As the description says: PyCow translates Python code to JavaScript code with the "MooTools way of class declaration". Examples of PyCow's mindblowing functionality can be seen at the PygoWave Server Google Code site.
http://code.google.com/p/pygowave-server/wiki/PythonToJavaScriptTranslator
MooTools contributor Mark Obcena (Keeto) examines and explains the finer points of the
MooTools Core. His articles are detailed, accurate, and must-reads for MooTools developers.
Three posts have been published thus far:
The DOM Fetcher Functions,
Natives, Generics and Extending the Language,
Classes: Constructors, Singletons and Privates.
MooTools Core Developer Sebastian Markbåge explains why returning false in event handlers can cause you problems. Check out Sebastian's tutorial to learn more about event bubbling and the proper way of handling events.
http://blog.calyptus.eu/seb/2009/07/why-you-shouldnt-return-false-in-mootools-event-handlers/
These are just a few of the great MooTools plugins floating around the MooTools community recently. Keep up the good work and we look forward to featuring your future plugins in upcoming posts!
The foundation of every great open source project is its community. The MooTools Team creates the base framework code but it's all of you that take the framework and build outstanding plugins. Here are some great plugins that have been released recently.
Slideshow 2 by Aeron Glemann is an outstanding photo / slideshow plugin that offers a plethora of options and features -- many more than you'd find with the average slideshow or lightbox. Slideshow 2 features Robert Penner easing transitions, photo delays, duration settings, the ability to make Slideshow 2 a lightbox, and an on-photo control panel.
http://www.electricprism.com/aeron/slideshow/
Created by MooTools Core Developer Christoph Pojer, MooTools FileManager is a MooTools-driven file manager that allows for drag and drop file management, Ajax directory loading, file content previews, and much more.
http://cpojer.net/blog/MooTools_based_FileManager
Moousture is a MooTools Mouse Gesture library created by Zohaib Sibt-e-Hassan. Moousture allows you to create multiple geture patterns and assign them to any number of elements.
http://neofreeman.freepgs.com/Moousture/
Fancy Upload 3 is the newest iteration of Harlad Kirschner's popular Flash/MooTools upload tool. Fancy Upload 3 features file-specific options, an additional IFrame-based uploader, Flash 9 and 10 compatibility, and the same base features that made Fancy Upload a must-have plugin.
http://digitarald.de/project/fancyupload/
These are just a few of the great MooTools plugins floating around the MooTools community recently. Keep up the good work and we look forward to featuring your future plugins in upcoming posts!