I finished my thesis in October 2004 and thought perhaps someone else may find it useful. I graduated about 'Corrugated horn antennas'. The text is only available in German though, sorry. I finished my thesis in October 2004 and thought perhaps someone else may find it useful. I graduated about 'Corrugated horn antennas'. The text is only available in German though, sorry.

posted at: 03:15 | path: /academia | permanent link to this entry

Ever being annoyed by not being able to type TABs (keycode 9) when editing textareas in your favorite cms? Well after some research, I seem to have found a solution - at least for the more popular browsers. If anyone has an idea how to get the current cursor position in khtml based browsers (safari, konqueror), please drop me a note. The below was tested on the Mozilla platform and with Internet Explorer 6.0. ... Ever being annoyed by not being able to type TABs (keycode 9) when editing textareas in your favorite cms? Well after some research, I seem to have found a solution - at least for the more popular browsers. If anyone has an idea how to get the current cursor position in khtml based browsers (safari, konqueror), please drop me a note. The below was tested on the Mozilla platform and with Internet Explorer 6.0. ...

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--

/**
* Insert a tab at the current text position in a textarea
* Jan Dittmer, jdittmer@ppp0.net, 2005-05-28
* Inspired by http://www.forum4designers.com/archive22-2004-9-127735.html
* Tested on: 
*   Mozilla Firefox 1.0.3 (Linux)
*   Mozilla 1.7.8 (Linux)
*   Epiphany 1.4.8 (Linux)
*   Internet Explorer 6.0 (Linux)
* Does not work in: 
*   Konqueror (no tab inserted, but focus stays)
*/
function insertTab(event,obj) {
	var tabKeyCode = 9;
	if (event.which) // mozilla
		var keycode = event.which;
	else // ie
		var keycode = event.keyCode;
	if (keycode == tabKeyCode) {
		if (event.type == "keydown") {
			if (obj.setSelectionRange) {
				// mozilla
				var s = obj.selectionStart;
				var e = obj.selectionEnd;
				obj.value = obj.value.substring(0, s) + 
					"\t" + obj.value.substr(e);
				obj.setSelectionRange(s + 1, s + 1);
				obj.focus();
			} else if (obj.createTextRange) {
				// ie
				document.selection.createRange().text="\t"
				obj.onblur = function() { this.focus(); this.onblur = null; };
			} else {
				// unsupported browsers
			}
		}
		if (event.returnValue) // ie ?
			event.returnValue = false;
		if (event.preventDefault) // dom
			event.preventDefault();
		return false; // should work in all browsers
	}
	return true;
}

//-->
</script>
<textarea onkeydown="return insertTab(event,this);" 
	  onkeyup="return insertTab(event,this);" 
	  onkeypress="return insertTab(event,this);" 
	  rows="30" cols="80">
</textarea>

Demo:
Some Text where you can press tab everywhere and stay at the correct position.

posted at: 17:12 | path: /web | permanent link to this entry