Programatically enabling native selects causes error

[adammessinger]

Programatically enabling native select menus using the code given in the select docs renders a jQM site unusable and produces the following error in Firebug:

$.mobile.selectmenu is undefined

Example here

[scottjehl]

typo in code example. Closed by 0745af1

[adammessinger]

I already noticed and corrected for that in the example I posted, which uses "nativeMenu" instead of "nativemenu". There's still a JS error.

[johnbender]

scott,

I commented a bit later on this here:

6798792

The select menu isn't defined on mobileinit just as page wasn't previously. We had to move page above core in the build process to fix that issue. It was a temporary fix in that case and doesn't really make sense in this case either.

It might be time to sort out a simple way to configure the widgets before they are created. Possibly defining their options hash before defining the widget itself?

    $mobile.selectmenu.options 

Which can then be used when the widgets are built.

[johnbender]

scott,

[update: config -> options naming convention]

johnbender/jquery-mobile@f944333...config

Thats a sample configuration setup that could be used like so:

    $(document).bind('mobileinit',function(){
        $.mobile.options.selectmenu.nativeMenu = true;
    });

and is pretty trivial to implement with the current widgets and include order.

[johnbender]

I'm consulting the team on my proposed solution. Hopefully we'll get this sorted out in the next day or so.

Thanks for your patience adam.

[johnbender]

closed with:

891f9b1

[kurteknikk]

I'm not sure if this has to do with the same issue. Basically i was looking for a function to disable the "removing of null value" from the select box and i found the code below in the docs:

$.mobile.selectmenu.prototype.options.hidePlaceholderMenuItems = false;

But when i include it within the mobileinit function it complains that mobile.selectmenu is undefined.