[Static]

[Steven]

Instead of using shift-click to select multiple rows how about adding an extra column of checkboxes? Would that make it any easier to implement?

[Static]

I am using a column of checkboxes if that's what you mean. Shift-clicking is very useful, so that's why I want to include it. It already works without shift-clicking anyway.

[Steven]

Ah okay. Yeah I agree shift-clicking would be really good in addition to the more traditional tick box method. I will add it as a knowledgebase tip to make sure that users know they can select multiple rows in that way.

[Static]

Isn't shift-clicking a de-facto standard for column selections by now

[Steven]

Yeah it probably is but some people may not know about it and a tip about it won't do any harm

[Static]

[Static]

I now made the selections work. I'll iron out a few bugs before continuing on to the "select all" checkbox. The main obstacle there is selecting all checkboxes on all pages when filtering is in effect. I'll also take a look at the DataTables API along with their plugin API to see if it's easier and prettier to implement it using those (and it probably is).

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I just tried a couple of the already existing datatables API examples related to selecting. While they work, they don't support shift-clicking, and don't take into account filtering. This pretty much makes them useless in Commentics. They do however supply good examples of using the API. I plan on making it work without the API first (since it already pretty much does), and then adopting the API to make things more readable, and take up less space.

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I just tried a couple of the already existing datatables API examples related to selecting. While they work, they don't support shift-clicking, and don't take into account filtering. This pretty much makes them useless in Commentics. They do however supply good examples of using the API. I plan on making it work without the API first (since it already pretty much does), and then adopting the API to make things more readable, and take up less space.

[Steven]

Saw this thread and thought it might help:
http://datatables.net/forums/comments.ph...ionID=3694

[Steven]

How is this feature progressing Static? I ask because I may release v1.3 very soon so would you be okay with this not being included until the next version?