Button collection problem in the example

cifra

Hi Allan,
in the http://datatables.net/release-datatables/extras/TableTools/collection.html example the Save collection not work, while copy and print work. It is a my problem?
In the http://datatables.net/release-datatables/extras/TableTools/button_text.html all work correctly.

Thanks

allan

You are quite right - I'll take a closer look and see what has gone wrong there. Thanks for flagging it up!

Allan

cifra

Allan
I think there is, also, a mistake in the http://datatables.net/release-datatables/extras/TableTools/swf_path.html.

The "sSwfPath": "media/swf/copy_cvs_xls_pdf.swf" should be "sSwfPath": "media/swf/copy_csv_xls_pdf.swf"

Kaibi

Hey guys.
I have the same problem and started to debug it a bit.

For me it looks like the problem of calculating the size of dom-elements wich are hidden.
The size and position of the flash containers is allways zero and so there is no clickable area.

Hopefully this helps fixing the bug.

cifra

Allan,
I see if I comment the row "document.body.appendChild( nHidden );" inside the "_fnCollectionConfig" function in the "TableTools.js" it look work correctly.
I believe that the problem is when the "_fnFlashGlue" run if the collection children has been append then it find them and append the flash part but with size equal to zero, instead of if I comment the row the collection children are append only when the collection button is pressed.
Sorry for my english.

dwaterhouse82

Same issue for me as well, only effects collections, single buttons work.
For now i'm just going to roll back to the previous version.

JDonaghy

I'd like to confirm that cifra's fix works for me as well. I diff'd the code against the old version and noticed that this particular line was the only change to that function. Removing the line makes button collections work again.

allan

I've just committed a fix for this ( https://github.com/DataTables/TableTools/commit/9c7837c86f92f8c223637f1b93745b3855d75749 ). It will be in the nightly shortly, and in the next TableTools release.

I didn't use cifra's fix directly as that results in a lot of 100mS timers being fired until the collection is shown (that's how it worked before, but it seems like a suboptimal approach in retrospect). The change I've put in will cause the buttons to resize correctly when the collection is shown, but without the need for the timer.

Regards,
Allan

allan

I should have said at the time - this is addressed in the latest TableTools release - currently standing at v2.1.2: http://datatables.net/download :-)