auto reload packery on collection change

[parliament718]

Can you please add functionality to auto-reload packery (I believe that would be "reloadItems" method) when the ng-repeat collection changes (in the spirit of angular)?

<packery>
        <packery-object ng-repeat="tile in vm.tiles" >

        </packery-object>
    </packery>

[joshuahiggins]

This is addressed in the README file.

https://github.com/SunGard-Labs/angular-packery#a-note-on-ng-include-and-draggability

[parliament718]

@joshuahiggins Not sure what you're talking about but this is not addressed anywhere. The simple snippet I posted above does not automatically refresh the tiles when I change the vm.tiles collection. I'm not using ng-include.

[joshuahiggins]

I'm sorry, I misread your original comment.

What are you attempting to accomplish? Items added via an ng-repeat are added as they are built. They have already been collected by Packery individually. I'm not sure what recollecting the items would accomplish?

[parliament718]

Thanks for prompt response. Ok so imagine I want to filter that collection so I remove or add some objects. In the spirit of angular, packery should automatically filter the tiles when I change this data-binded collection.

Think http://stackexchange.com/sites

See the categories at the top, you can click to filter? I'm trying to accomplish this effect.

[joshuahiggins]

Oh! I understand what you mean now. That's a great idea. I'll definitely poke around with that for v1.1.

[joshuahiggins]

This actually somewhat relates to issue #3, allowing for destroying packed items. After those items are removed, the whole layout would need to be refreshed, just as with filtering items.

[parliament718]

Awesome thank you! When do you plan to release 1.1?

[joshuahiggins]

No set date, but there's a few features that we plan to add for the v1.1 release:

https://github.com/SunGard-Labs/angular-packery/milestones/1.1

[dotlouis]

+1 would definitely like this feature

[joncaris]

+1 Working on a site right now and was looking for this same functionality. The idea would be to be able to type into a filter input and when the items are filtered/unfiltered, packery would refresh the layout.