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Added demo codes for AltField and AltFormat in Unix and ODBC date
formats.
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KidSysco committed May 4, 2016
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Expand Up @@ -94,6 +94,20 @@ $(document).ready(function() {
title: 'MonthPicker Dialog Test',
modal: true
});

$('#AltMonthField').MonthPicker({
SelectedMonth: 'Jan, 2016',
MonthFormat: 'M, yy', // Short month name, Full year.
AltFormat: '@', // Unix time stamp.
AltField: '#serverValue' // Selector for hidden input.
});

$('#AltMonthField2').MonthPicker({
SelectedMonth: 'Jan, 2016',
MonthFormat: 'M, yy', // Short month name, Full year.
AltFormat: 'yy-dd-mm', // ODBC time stamp.
AltField: '#serverValue2' // Selector for hidden input.
});

$("h1").text( $("h1").text().replace('@VERSION', $.MonthPicker.VERSION) );
});
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Expand Up @@ -188,11 +188,42 @@ <h3>Month Format Demonstration</h3>
<option value="MM &apos;in the year&apos; yy">With text - MM 'in the year' yy</option>
</select>
</p>

<h3>Inline Menu Demonstration</h3>
<h3>Alternate Field/Format Demonstration</h3>

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@KidSysco Forgot to say great work with the new demo yesterday :)

It's definitely better than my example fiddle where the alternate field gets hidden when you open the menu.
<p>
This demonstrates the Month Picker menu inlined in a div tag.
<div id='InlineMenu'></div>
This demonstrates how the <a href='https://github.com/KidSysco/jquery-ui-month-picker/wiki/AltField-Option' target="_blank">AltField</a> and
<a href='https://github.com/KidSysco/jquery-ui-month-picker/wiki/AltFormat-Option' target="_blank">AltFormat</a> options work so that values shown to the user can be different than what is submitted to the server.
<table style="margin-top: -25px;">
<tr>
<td>Value shown to user:</td>
<td>&nbsp; &nbsp; </td>
<td>Unix Date value sent to server:</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><input id="AltMonthField" style='width:100px;' /></td>
<td>&nbsp; &nbsp; </td>
<td><input name='selectedMonth' id="serverValue" />
<!-- This could be a hidden input, I made it a text so you cen see what gets sent to the server -->
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Value shown to user:</td>
<td>&nbsp; &nbsp; </td>
<td>ODBC Date value sent to server:</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><input id="AltMonthField2" style='width:100px;' /></td>
<td>&nbsp; &nbsp; </td>
<td><input name='selectedMonth2' id="serverValue2" />
<!-- This could be a hidden input, I made it a text so you cen see what gets sent to the server -->
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</p>

<h3>jQuery UI Dialog Integration Demonstration</h3>
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<br />
<button type="button" id="LaunchDialog" onclick="$('#Modal').dialog('open');">Launch Dialog</button>
</p>

<h3>Inline Menu Demonstration</h3>
<p>
This demonstrates the Month Picker menu inlined in a div tag.
<div id='InlineMenu'></div>
</p>

<h3>HTML 5 Month Input Type Support</h3>
<p>
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That was in your test right? I saw that when I added tests for clearing the AltField.

I thought that your approach was rather interesting, you ran all operations against that hidden field including test assertions and the hidden field was never actually inserted into the DOM.

I also noticed something interesting about your style of jQuery programming...

You do this,

$(ElementId)

instead of...

$("#ElementId")

Which I had no idea even worked. It's interesting that it does and I see why now, but I have never seen either of these approaches before so I enjoyed reading your code, working in it, and learning from it!

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I only recently (about 8 months ago) learned that if a property is not found on the global object (know as window in the browser) it searches for an element with that ID on the document (DOM).

But there's a reason you rarely see this (in fact I would never use this in an environment that I don't 100% control).

The reasons you should avoid using this is:

  1. If you define an element with the Id foo and then someone in the future defines a global called foo you will have a name clash (where the global wins and your code breaks).
  2. Even developers that know this trick will think it's a property on the global object and try to search for its definition in .js files before they realize it's defined in HTML.
  3. The Id must be a valid JavaScript identifier (which is rarely the case because you can use characters such as -, # or .)

The reasons I use this trick in our unit tests are:

  1. I'm kind of lazy when it comes to writing well factored unit tests.
  2. I 100% control the test environment so when it fails I can just refactor this.
  3. Unlike a production like environment the whole point of unit tests are running tests and watching it fail (even on annoying things like this).

I'm not saying it's always a bad idea to use this trick, but you should definitely think twice before using it.

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Yes, I was able to pull up quite a bit of info about it, most of it read like that and most folks recommended against it. I figured you knew all of this too but I didn't want to say anything to you about it. I trust you and I know you will beat me to fixing any sort of problem that might arise. And using the hidden input without even inserting into the DOM. Thats great, I had no idea that would work as such. Very interesting approaches, this is all very rewarding stuff for me! We are a good team and this is a lot of fun! Woot!

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