Reimplement filter sliders

[jwildfire]

[MayaGans]

Rewrite the method added to DT that told it how to deal with sorting, write that using the new settings object

[jwildfire]

This chunk needs updates.

[jwildfire]

In particular, the list of values here and here need updates

[MayaGans]

I played with this for quite a while but have yet to crack this one. The two portions of the commented code you highlighted still exist in the config object so I'm not sure what exactly needs to change based on the settings object

I also don't fully grok when this function is triggered (I see you create the actual slider above in makeFilterControls but where is the event handler looking for the change? Reading the DT docs I get(ish) that $.fn.dataTable.ext.search.push will return the filtered search result, but do we have to wrap this whole thing in like a "detect when the slider is changed" jquery type logic? I'll keep poking around but if you get a chance/beat me to the punchline I'd love to discuss your solution!

[jwildfire]

Thanks for working on this! I've got a few hours blocked tomorrow to dig in and try to get this wrapped up. Will keep you posted :)

[jwildfire]

do we have to wrap this whole thing in like a "detect when the slider is changed" jquery type logic?

IIRC - The table.draw() calls in the slide methods deal with this in a brute force way. Basically the table is redrawn every time the slider is moved and the whole $.fn.dataTable.ext.search.push chunk tells dataTable to filter based on the sliders. There is almost certainly a more elegant way to do this, but not sure what it is ...