what is setScrollbar() method practically doing inside modal.js - javascript

I was just going through the source of modal.js and came across the following method with which i have difficulty understanding,
Modal.prototype.setScrollbar = function () {
var bodyPad = parseInt((this.$body.css('padding-right') || 0), 10)
if (this.bodyIsOverflowing) this.$body.css('padding-right', bodyPad + this.scrollbarWidth)
}
actually the above method is pretty straightforward ,
basically its storing the current padding on the body and then ,
checking if the body is overflowing and after that applying padding-right .
now my question is whats the practical or visual use of this function ??
i have gone through most functions in modal.js and they do make sense to me, except this function , some of the functions i have seen have pretty subtle effects , so its hard to pick , but with this function even i am unable to pick whats the subtle difference with or without it.
Can somebody elaborate. the function i am having difficulty with can be found on git. Line 269.
Thank you.
Alexander.

By increasing the size of the right-padding of the body by the width of the scroll bar it's ensuring that the scroll bar is not overlapping content...and that's why you probably don't notice it. It's really only something you'd notice if it wasn't being used (your content could potentially be overlapped by the scroll bar).

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Why do my elements flicker before an animation using css

I was creating a 2048 clone from scratch as a project. I have got the game pretty much working only problem is that my animations look janky. I have used css grid to construct my game board and after every move (user input) all the tiles are meant to slide across the board in a direction. That part works fine, it's when they start the slide animation that for whatever reason some of the elements flicker.
I'm not the best with css animations but I have tried to look at every resource I could and I couldn't find any solutions suited to my code. I tried switching the animation timing, delaying the animation etc to no avail. I did use a package animate-css-grid (because animating css grid is hard) which only handles the tiles sliding across the grid and I do not suspect that it is causing the issue.
I have put the code on js fiddle if anyone is interested to try and see the problem https://jsfiddle.net/codedjourney/uv1o48L6/3/ hello
Also if anyone has a better way of animating css grid let me know the package while helpful is a bit odd to work with. Thanks for the help
I managed to get rid of the flickering by commenting out the hidden class in the addTile method
addTile(tile) {
// create the tile
const tileElm = document.createElement("div")
tileElm.classList.add(
"cell",
"tile",
// "hidden",
`cell-${tile.x}-${tile.y}`
)
const valueElm = document.createElement("div")
valueElm.classList.add("tile-container", `value-${tile.value}`)
valueElm.textContent = tile.value
tileElm.appendChild(valueElm)
this.display.appendChild(tileElm)
this.cells[tile.x][tile.y] = new Tile(
tileElm,
tile.x,
tile.y,
tile.value
)
// request frame to allow transition to play
window.requestAnimationFrame(() => {
tileElm.classList.remove("hidden")
})
}
As I saw your code All I see is that it's getting larger while colliding and it's happening because you have added css the one which scales your box while colliding.
Transform: Scale
Try using this css style and you might get your problem solved.

Flexslider breaks jQuery accordion [duplicate]

I have a test page to better explain my problem. I have several items on a list (they're images on the test page); when I click on one of them, a corresponding slideshow, using flexslider, sldes down.
The problem is that, on page load, the slideshow shows all slides at once, at a much smaller size than intended. But then, if I switch the focus from the window (i.e. switch between browser tabs or move to another program and come back), the slideshow is now working and the slides are the proper size. This happens in mobile devices too.
When I check with firebug, there's an element.style rule applying to ul.slides:
transform: translate3d(-89px, 0px, 0px);
Which hides one of the slides. Additionally, there's another rule for the list items inside ul.slides that gives them their initial width, which is not even the same for all sliders so I don't understand where it is coming from.
Can someone take a look and suggest a fix? I've tried overriding the element.style rule but so far unsuccessfully.
I think I've figured it out, in principal at least...
.flexslider{display:none;} seems throw off the re-size function of Flexslider.
You could just remove it, but that makes for some ugly loading.
To avoid said ugly loading I put together a quick, work-around- jsFiddle
$(document).ready(function(){
$(".flexslider").css('display','block').slideUp();
});
There's a still a quick glitch while loading, but hopefully it will at least steer you in the right direction.
Another method I played with a bit was to try and force the re-size function like so-
$(".client").click(function () {
$('.flexslider').resize(); // Problematic but promising
var project = this.id;
var project_id = '#' + project + '-project';
var elem = $(".flexslider:visible").length ? $(".flexslider:visible"): $(".flexslider:first");
elem.slideUp('slow', function () {
$(project_id).slideDown('slow');
});
});
This sort of solved the mini-picture issue, but was spotty at best.

Adapt obfuscated javascript (positioning a nice canvas animation)

On Codepen I found a neat little interactive graphic use of Javascript, jQuery, and the canvas element.
http://codepen.io/altescape/pen/tbdao
Note: After reading the comments below, I removed the demo I had
uploaded, and even the author of the pen acknowledges he 'just wanted
to play' with it and didn't create it. Hence, I am linking to it just
because it's neat but using it without permission is a no-no. Thanks
for bringing it to my attention.
What I want is to insert it on that (my) site's homepage, in the place of the "under construction message" that is front and center. I'm pretty new to JS but I am good with HTML & CSS, and aware of the basics of DOM...I thought I'd be able to figure out how to adjust it appropriately but no luck, when I inserted the code as if it were HTML going in a div it just floated in the middle of the screen like it is now.
About 90% to the bottom of the JS file there are a few lines of code:
$(function () {
function n(d) {
var b = "";
for (jj = 0; jj < d.length; jj++) b += d.charCodeAt(jj).toString(16);
return b
}
function p() {
j.attr({
height: $(window).height(),
width: $(window).width()
});
k = j.width();
l = j.height();
q()
}
The whole height and width seemed promising but making and adjustment broke it entirely. Can anybody explain to me how to make sense of or successfully manipulate this code so I can position it...perhaps even in a way that will allow it to display appropriately in different size browser windows (I am using CSS media queries)?
I read every post on here that seemed to be related, but to be honest, I might not even be using relevant query phrases as I am not sure if I am using the right terminology. I am completely lost on this one and a bit out of my league, thanks for your patience.

jQueryui animation with inital undefined height

See the following fiddle:
[edit: updated fiddle => http://jsfiddle.net/NYZf8/5/ ]
http://jsfiddle.net/NYZf8/1/ (view in different screen sizes, so that ideally the image fits inside the %-width layouted div)
The image should start the animation from the position where it correctly appears after the animation is done.
I don't understand why the first call to setMargin() sets a negative margin even though the logged height for container div and img are the very same ones, that after the jqueryui show() call set the image where I would want it (from the start on). My guess is that somehow the image height is 0/undefined after all, even though it logs fine :?
js:
console.log('img: ' + $('img').height());
console.log('div: ' + $('div').height());
$('img').show('blind', 1500, setMargin);
function setMargin() {
var marginTop =
( $('img').closest('div').height() - $('img').height() ) / 2;
console.log('marginTop: ' + marginTop);
$('img').css('marginTop', marginTop + 'px');
}
setMargin();
Interesting problem...after playing around with your code for a while (latest update), I saw that the blind animation was not actually firing in my browser (I'm testing on Chrome, and maybe it was firing but I wasn't seeing it as the image was never hidden in the first place), so I tried moving it inside the binded load function:
$('img').bind('load', function() {
...
$(this).show('blind', 500);
});
Now that it was animating, it seemed to 'snap' or 'jump' after the animation was complete, and also seemed to appear with an incorrect margin. This smacks of jQuery not being able to correctly calculate the dimensions of something that hadn't been displayed on the screen yet. On top of that, blind seems to need more explicit dimensions to operate correctly. So therein lies the problem: how to calculate elements' rendered dimensions before they've actually appeared on the screen?
One way to do this is to fade in the element whose dimensions you're trying to calculate very slightly - not enough to see yet - do some calculations, then hide it again and prep it for the appearance animation. You can achieve this with jQuery using the fadeTo function:
$('img').bind('load', function() {
$(this).fadeTo(0, 0.01, function() {
// do calculations...
}
}
You would need to work out dimensions, apply them with the css() function, blind the image in and then reset the image styles back to their original states, all thanks to a blind animation that needs these dimensions explicitly. I would also recommend using classes in the css to help you manage things a little better. Here's a detailed working example: jsfiddle working example
Not the most elegant way of doing things, but it's a start. There are a lot more easier ways to achieve seemingly better results, and I guess I just want to know why you're looking to do image blinds and explicit alignment this way? It's just a lot more challenging achieving it with the code you used...anyways, hope this helps! :)

How can I resize a swf during runtime to have the browser create html scrollbars?

I have a swf with loads text into a Sprite that resizes based on the content put into - I'd like though for the ones that are longer than the page to have the browser use its native scroll bars rather than handle it in actionscript (very much like http://www.nike.com/nikeskateboarding/v3/...)
I did have a look at the stuff nike did but just wasn't able to pull it off. Any idea's?
The trick is to use some simple JavaScript to resize the Flash DOM node:
function resizeFlash( h ) {
// "flash-node-id" is the ID of the embedded Flash movie
document.getElementById("flash-node-id").style.height = h + "px";
}
Which you call from within the Flash movie like this:
ExternalInterface.call("resizeFlash", 400);
You don't actually need to have the JavaScript code externally, you can do it all from Flash if you want to:
ExternalInterface.call(
"function( id, h ) { document.getElementById(id).style.height = h + 'px'; }",
ExternalInterface.objectID,
400
);
The anonymous function is just to be able to pass in the ID and height as parameters instead of concatenating them into the JavaScript string.
I think that the JavaScript is fairly cross-platform. If you want to see a live example look at this site: talkoftheweather.com. It may not look as though it does anything, but it automatically resizes the Flash movie size to accommodate all the news items (it does this just after loading the news, which is done so quickly that you don't notice it happening). The resize forces the browser to show a vertical scroll bar.
I've never done it that way around but I think swffit might be able to pull it off.
I halfway looked at swffit but the height (and width sometimes but mainly height) would be dynamic - swffit let's you declare a maxHeight but that number would be constantly changing...maybe I could figure out how to set it dynamically. A great place for me to start though - thanks!
What I've mostly been using if for is to limit how small you can make a "fullbrowser" flash, and for that it works great.
Happy hacking!
(and don't forget to post your findings here, I might need that too soon ;))
SWFSize
See here for more details.
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