KeyTable support for touch screens?

florincosmin

Hi,

First of all, thanks for the amazing work you're doing.

I am working on a project where I am using DataTable and KeyTable together with jEditable. I am wondering if is there anything I can do to support touch events for the jEditable plugin. For example when an user wants to edit on mobile devices he will be able to tap on a cell in order to edit that cell and to tap everywhere else to update the cell (some sort of 'esc').

Florin.

allan

What event does the touch produce? Is it not a 'click' event, and does that not already open the editing cell?

Allan

florincosmin

Hi Allan, I am sorry, I 'made a mistake. I initially tried this example http://datatables.net/release-datatables/extras/KeyTable/editing.html but just know I notice it's not click event but responds to return key. I want to be able to edit the cells on clicks / touch events if mobile.

I will also try to investigate myself how to change from enter to click events.

florincosmin

--UPDATE--
I checked on the web and found this page: http://www.appelsiini.net/projects/jeditable/default.html
Then I checked its source and found out how to apply .editable() function to react for different events.

[code]
/* Apply the jEditable handlers to the table */
window.oTable.$('td').editable(doEdit, {
"placeholder" : ' ',
"height" : "14px",
"width" : "100%",
"event" : "mouseover"

});
[/code]
In he above example, the table cell will change to a text input field as the mouse goes over them.

allan

Ah yes - KeyTable uses the click as focus not activate (which is what the return key does).

Actually thinking about it, what aspect of KeyTable would you want to get on a touch device? Could you just disable it and have jEditable doing its thing on the table as it normally does?

Allan

florincosmin

Hi again, good question!

I think I will have to try it. I think the "activate" event is perfect for desktops but when going mobile, it's not possible to fire the "activate" events. The way I want to make it is to react at "activate" on desktop and "click/touch" when mobile.