Vertically center overlay window - facebook

For an application I am working on, their is a requirement for a custom overlay to display detailed information about a selected item. I am using jQuery Tools for this but am having issues centering the overlay vertically within the user's viewport. Because the page is so tall it is rarely in an appropriate location (either to high or to low). How can I force this overlay to be centered?

You can indeed center the overlay with jQuery Tools. They were kind enough to include this functionality. If you read the source it has a conditional check for if the option key "top" has the value of "center"
Thus,
$(".overlay").overlay({
top: "center"
});
And that's it!

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Mapbox GL-JS : Mapbox icon's z-index

I have a web-app going and I want the Mapbox attribution to be in the bottom-right corner. This is obviously easy to do, but the problem is the logo is behind my menu, as seen below :
Is it possible to access the logo in CSS so that I can properly make the logo on top of all the other content? I want to follow Mapbox guidelines as much as possible. In the image I attached it looks grey because it is behind a semi-transparent menu.
Doing "inspect element" on the logo reveals that its styling is controlled through the a.mapboxgl-ctrl-logo selector. You can add your own override styles to that.

Bootstrap modal pop up issue on Iphone

I am using iframe-resizer for cross domain application, The Iframe loads fine in desktop and andriod devices but on my Iphone, I am facing below issue:
The bootstrap modal pop ups on Iframe app is hiding and flickering behind when I scroll on page.
I tried
-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch;
on container of Iframe but that does not work.
Any help/suggestion will be highly appreciated.
We fixed the issue by using position:absolute instead of position:fixed
Position fixed and absolute are somewhat similar in behavior. Both use x,y positioning in the view port and both are outside of the DOM document flow so other content is not affected by the placement of containers. Both require zIndex positioning to determine vertical priority in the view stack.
Position fixed keeps the element pinned at whatever position you set it to regardless of the scroll position of the browser. This makes sense in some scenarios where you actually want to scroll the entire page but leave content in place. The key to remember is to not use it when you build have your own scrollable content on the page.
It turns out in my case I don’t really need position:fixed because I manage the position and size of the container and toolbar headers and footers myself anyway. I know where everything is positioned and keep the content area effectively wedged in the middle of the statically sized elements. By way of CSS and media queries I can force the header to the top and the footer on the bottom using fixed sizes which means I can safely use position:absolute.

Application Menu on top of Leaflet map

In a map application based on Leaflet, I would like to have a large application menu, kind of a settings menu. I managed to put a nice button into the top right corner as a L.Control and it gets fired on a click.
The menu should position either to the left of the menu button or simply in the middle of the screen.
I am wondering whether it is best practice to use
a Popup,
a Layer,
another Control or
just position a at the right place on the page.
Trying the latter, I found that I have to set z-index to a very high value to see it, and it feels a bit odd not to use the Leafleat features.
What would be the "right" solution to use with Leaflet?
If you want a full screen map, you can use https://github.com/Turbo87/leaflet-sidebar
I use it here: http://franceimage.github.io/map
You can create a nice customized icons based toolbar using Leaflet easybutton plugin.
You will have all the leaflet based controls (Click, hover, position etc.) to set that up as per your requirements.
Here are the implementation examples:
http://danielmontague.com/projects/easyButton.js/v1/examples/
and github repo: https://github.com/CliffCloud/Leaflet.EasyButton

How to scroll images vertically in blackberry

All the screens I've designed for BlackBerry so far I set the position coordinates statically, without the need of a vertical scroll.
I do not understand how to use this vertical manager to scroll and see the list.
We have to create vertical field manager as follow
VerticalFieldManager manager=
new VerticalFieldManager(
Manager.VERTICAL_SCROLL |
Manager.VERTICAL_SCROLLBAR );
to scroll fields in vertical field manager.
The following link will also help you.
How to set a ScrollBar to the VerticalFieldManager in Blackberry?

Vertically add elements to a scrollview: diffs between Java and iPhone SDK?

Folks,
coming from the Java/Swing world, I am sometimes puzzled by the UI programming on the iPhone. I've spent the last hours with Googling for information but it seems that I asked the wrong questions by thinking too much in Java. Could you please point me to resources to get more familiar with the GUI concepts to be able to achive the following functionality:
Basically, I want to create a vertically scrollable view that represents structured text (for example, a recipe). Each step consists of a title and a textual description. As I want to fold and unfold such steps, the title would be somehow interactive and by clicking it the description would be displayed or hidden.
In Java, I would create a component that renders one such section. The layout manager would compute the components preferred height (with or without description being displayed).
Then, in Java, I would create a panel with a vertical layout manager and sequentially add my components. This panel would be placed in a scroll pane; the scroll pane would ask the panel to layout itself and then show a viewport on it, if for example the height is bigger than the scroll pane's height.
What Java provides me is:
layouting of elements (computing their preferred height and width), thus no need to deal with coordinates and dimensions
dynamic creation of UIs by creating and adding components during runtime
What I understood on the iPhone:
I can dynamically add views as subview to a view, e.g. a scrollview by calling addSubview
I can even remove that stuff using removeFromSubview (as explained here Clear content of UIScrollView)
What I don't understand on the iPhone:
does one view always correspond to a visible screen (I did use tab and navbar navigation so far and there whenever I set a new view, it fills the current visible screen minus the space needed for the two bars)?
or is it possible to define a view that contains a label on top ("north") and a text in center; if so, could such a view automatically determine its height?
can I realize my example in a similar way like in Java or would I need to calculate all dimensions and coordinates of the individual components on my own? (This example seems to touch on that topic: iPhone scrollView add elements dynamically with id)
Alternatively, could I use a WebView and render my stuff as local HTML using JavaScript to show or hide nodes?
Thanks for any hint or link!
There are no layout managers in Cocoa, views are being reposition according to their struts and springs settings. For information on that read the documentation: http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/DeveloperTools/Conceptual/IB_UserGuide/Layout/Layout.html
To create a "view that contains a label on top and a text in center" you create a view with subviews - one being a label at the top, second the textview in center. If you configure struts/springs for all of subviews properly, they will autoresize when the container view is resized.
You should also get accustomed to Interface Builder, creating views in code is real pain in the ass.