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Comment on Setting jqGrid column width from titles by Noe

Noe — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 21:22:37 +0000

After further review, it was my XML string.
I was missing a column of data, which was throwing the whole thing off.

Thanks for your help.

Comment on Setting jqGrid column width from titles by kdorff

kdorff — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 14:30:46 +0000

1. Did my sample project resize the 2nd and 3rd columns for you as expected?
2. Did you add resizeToTitleWidth:true to the columns in column model that you want to have resized?
3. Did you add the span to your HTML?
4. Did you add the code I wrote to resize the columns if resizeToTitleWidth is true? This changes the column model BEFORE the grid is made to set the width on the appropriate columns. It uses the ruler to assist with doing so.
5. Did you step through my code, using Firebug, to see that it was finding the columns to resize and appropriately resizing?

The problem with Javascript is that if you have a typo, missing comma, etc. it just silently stops processing the Javascript. Firebug helps with this.

If you have Firebug installed, you can add logging lines to your Javascript

console.log("some message");

and see the logging messages in Firebug's console to see that various parts of your code are running.

Comment on Setting jqGrid column width from titles by Noe

Noe — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 01:30:27 +0000

I took your advise and peeked around with firebug. I know where I need to change the width but I don't know how to do it. It's in a th tag, I need to change the width. th class="ui-state-default ui-th-column ui-th-ltr" role="columnheader" style="width: 55px;" any idea? Thanks

Comment on Setting jqGrid column width from titles by kdorff

kdorff — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 18:48:12 +0000

My overall recommendations would be

1. Make your Javascript as simple as possible
2. Use Firebug (plugin for Firefox) as it will make debugging Javascript, HTML, and CSS much simpler.
3. Web Developer Toolbar and Aardvark (other Firefox plugins) can also be very helpful. But if you just add one plugin, it needs to be Firebug.

Comment on Setting jqGrid column width from titles by Noe

Noe — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 18:38:47 +0000

Thanks for the sample code, I used the sample code and I still have the same problem. I'm guessing it's my XML data: "var mystr ="

Comment on Setting jqGrid column width from titles by kdorff

kdorff — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:51:32 +0000

I've updated the above example with a couple minor things AND if you look at the bottom I now include a complete example that should help. This uses default fonts so the +26 offset isn't quite enough, it seems, but hopefully it will help.

Comment on Setting jqGrid column width from titles by kdorff

kdorff — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 16:16:26 +0000

Sorry, try

ruler.innerHTML = colNamesData[i];

I've fixed it in the above already.

Comment on Setting jqGrid column width from titles by Noe

Noe — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 16:04:00 +0000

I get an error, 'colNames is undefined'. Doesn't like this line,

"ruler.innerHTML = colNames[i];

Any idea?

Thanks.

Comment on Console, Cygwin, and Windows 7 by phayes

phayes — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:52:50 +0000

Try using mintty, a module included with cygwin. I tried & abandoned rxvt when I found mintty. Mintty is similarly customizable (it even has transparency for inactive windows), has the same xterm style copying & pasting but has the advantage of a smaller footprint as it does not need X. It's one weakness is that it's multiwindow instead of tabbed. As an aside, I just moved to WinSevenUltimate64 to break the 3.5Gb memory barrier & found that cygwin/Windows integration has become much easier. Cygwin has always used /cygwin/home/username as the user homedir because the windows account equivalent has spaces. The use of spaces for "My Documents", "My Pictures" etc was also a problem. Win7 now uses c:\users\username as the default directory & the "My " prefix has been dropped. I was just able to finally unify my cygwin & Windows homedir by setting HOME & removing the login directory from my entry in the cywin password file. Once I moved .??* & the few directories i kept in my homedir from c:\cygwin\home\phayes to c:\users\phayes everything just worked!

Comment on Sad, Yet Thankful by Queenbee

Queenbee — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 09:56:54 +0000

Nicely said.