Chardin.js

Simple overlay instructions for your apps.

Chardin.js is a jQuery plugin that creates a simple overlay to display instructions on existent elements. It is inspired by the recent Gmail new composer tour which I loved.

Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin

Installing

Simple! Fork this repo or download chardinjs.css and chardinjs.min.js and add the following assets to your HTML:

<link href="chardinjs.css" rel="stylesheet"> <script src="chardinjs.min.js"></script>

Installing in the rails asset pipeline (optional)

There's a chardinjs-rails gem.

Building (optional)

If you choose to fork the repo you can build the assets running

rake compile

Adding data for the instructions

Add the instructions to your elements:

data-intro: Text to show with the instructions
data-position: (left, top, right, bottom), where to place the text with respect to the element

<img src="img/chardin.png" data-intro="An awesome 18th-century painter, who found beauty in everyday, common things." data-position="right" />

Running

Once you have your elements ready you can show instructions running

$('body').chardinJs('start')

If you would rather run ChardinJs confined to a particular container (instead of using the whole document) you can change body to some other selector.

$('.container').chardinJs('start')

You may also refresh instructions overlay any time to reflect whatever changes happened to the underlying page elements since the instructions overlay has been displayed.

var chardinOverlay = $('body').chardinJs('start'); ... chardinOverlay.refresh();

Methods

.chardinJs('start')

Start ChardinJs in the selector.

.chardinJs('toggle')

Toggle ChardinJs.

.chardinJs('stop')

Make your best guess. That's right! Stops ChardinJs in the selector.

Events

'chardinJs:start'

Triggered when chardinJs is correctly started.

'chardinJs:stop'

Triggered when chardinJs is stopped.

Author

Pablo Fernandez

Contributors

Contributions

If you want to contribute, please:

Fork the project.
Make your feature addition or bug fix.
Add yourself to the list of contributors in the README.md.
Send me a pull request on Github.

License

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.

Chardin.js : jQuery Simple overlay instructions for your apps