Design alphabet

[Mark Goldin]

I need to design a toolbar or something that will show letters from the
alphabet.
The user will use these letters to filter grids data.
I'd like to have these letters with a hover effect: when the user moves a
mouse over
the letter it gets its background changed.
Any idea?

 

[clintonG]

Hack up this ASP...

<table border="0" style="position:absolute; margin-left:-420;
top:50px; font-size:8pt; font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif; z-index:5;">
<tr>
<%
response.write"<td><a href=""a-zcss.asp?id=0-9"" & "" "">0-9</td>"
for x= 65 to 90
response.write "<td><a href='a-zcss.asp?id=" & chr(x) & "'>" & chr(x) & "</td>"
next
%>
</tr>
</table>


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<%= Clinton Gallagher
A/E/C Consulting, Web Design, e-Commerce Software Development
Wauwatosa, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin USA
NET csgallagher@ REMOVETHISTEXT metromilwaukee.com
URL http://www.metromilwaukee.com/clintongallagher/

 

[Jos]

I need to design a toolbar or something that will show letters from
the alphabet.
The user will use these letters to filter grids data.
I'd like to have these letters with a hover effect: when the user
moves a mouse over
the letter it gets its background changed.
Any idea?

Here's some letter pagers for ASP.NET:
http://www.codeproject.com/aspnet/letterbasedpaging.asp
http://www.codeproject.com/aspnet/LetterPaging.asp

 

[clintonG]

Neither of those projects are 'alphanumeric' unless a user wants to
waste their time selecting 'all' which most dial-up users learn very
quickly not to do.

Too bad most site designers and developers are stupid and lazy,
do not know how to design or develop the user interface well, or
do not care to put forth the effort to do the job well, or both.

Furthermore, enabling 'all' is stupid in most cases as it can be used
by competitors or other thieves to obtain dumps of the entire table.
If the developer was especially stupid perhaps the entire database.

While those articles are good starting points both need to be modified
to support 0-9 as a selection choice. Neither include intelligent use of
SQL Collation which allows retrieval using case dependent search.


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<%= Clinton Gallagher
A/E/C Consulting, Web Design, e-Commerce Software Development
Wauwatosa, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin USA
NET csgallagher@ REMOVETHISTEXT metromilwaukee.com
URL http://www.metromilwaukee.com/clintongallagher/

 

[Jos]

Neither of those projects are 'alphanumeric' unless a user wants to
waste their time selecting 'all' which most dial-up users learn very
quickly not to do.

Too bad most site designers and developers are stupid and lazy,
do not know how to design or develop the user interface well, or
do not care to put forth the effort to do the job well, or both.

Furthermore, enabling 'all' is stupid in most cases as it can be used
by competitors or other thieves to obtain dumps of the entire table.
If the developer was especially stupid perhaps the entire database.

While those articles are good starting points both need to be modified
to support 0-9 as a selection choice. Neither include intelligent use
of SQL Collation which allows retrieval using case dependent search.

The second:
http://www.codeproject.com/aspnet/LetterPaging.asp
definitely supports 0-9. I happened to use it on a database with
company names, and since some company names started with
an ampersand, even the @ showed up in the pager.

 

[clintonG]

I may have made a compiler error ;-0 as I've been working
on developing my own alphanumeric navigation component
and as soon as I saw others mentioned went to go look-see.

Thanks for bringing it to my attention -- I'll look closer.

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<%= Clinton Gallagher
A/E/C Consulting, Web Design, e-Commerce Software Development
Wauwatosa, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin USA
NET csgallagher@ REMOVETHISTEXT metromilwaukee.com
URL http://www.metromilwaukee.com/clintongallagher/