Personally, I love Mootools download builder. There’s just one feature that is missing, it becomes very annoying everytime I needs the entire Mootools library. I can remember the old (?) download builder had a “check all” button, which included (checks) all Mootools components to the file I was about to download. Nowadays, the download builder doesn’t have this feature anymore. Well, actually the download builder has the functionality to check all components, but it lacks a button. I wrote a bookmarklet that let’s you do the trick.

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Today I released GChart 0.2 alpha.

GChart is a small piece of javascript (packed 2.4kb) that enables using the Google Chart API in an easy way. GChart translates passed options to a url that can be used to request a chart from the Google Chart API. Also it provides several ways to insert, apply or return the chart based on the passed options.

It implements almost all parameters the Google Chart API accepts. You can read more about it on the GChart Project Page. For a quick download, go here, and if you just want to see the GChart source, go here.

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As soon as I read about the Google Chart API I started writing a javascript wrapper for it (I called it GChart). It’s not finished yet, but it has most functionality. The simple, text and extended encoding types are supported, as wel as datasets, size, legends, titles and different types of charts. GChart 0.1 alpha is now available for download.

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Yesterday and today the Ajaxian team posted two very interesting posts concerning javascript charting. The first one is Flot and it´s built on top of jQuery, a javascript framework. The second one´s from Google, it´s called the Google Chart API. So for everyone who´s not satisfied with Plotr, you might give those libs a try.

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Yesterday Sam Stephenson released the final version of the Prototype Javascript Framework. I’ve been using RC0 and RC1 for some time and what I was missing in earlier releases of Prototype’s the ability to fire custom events. I’m going to use it to fire events in Plotr. In this post I’ll explain how to fire custom events, and of course how to observe those events.

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Wouldn’t it be great to do something like this in javascript:

function test(){
	return ['first!', 'second!'];
}

[first, second] = test();

alert(first); // should say ‘first!’
alert(second); // should say ’second!’

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Like I promised in the last post about the release of Plotr 0.3.0 I was going to write some proper documentation. Well, I put up a page from which you can browse all documentation. You can find it at http://www.solutoire.com/plotr/docs/. There’s not much to find right now, but in the next few weeks I’ll write some docs on colorSchemes and datasets.

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Today I release the new version of Plotr, version 0.3.0. It took a little longer than expected, but there where some problems with the plotr configurator. Sorry I kept you waiting. The Plotr code is almost the same as the svn version from July, I made just a few adjustments.

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While browsing the Mootools forums I came across an excellent post by Fløe Rasmus. He explains to a mootools newbie how to use the selector functions $ and $$. In this article I’ll explain how $, $$, $E and $ES work, and as a bonus I’ll list all the dollar functions in Mootools v1.11.

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If you have a javascript file that makes use of Mootools, and you don’t know which components you need, go to the Packito page and it’ll show you which Mootools (version 1.1) components are needed to run the javascript without any errors.

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