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+/* --- Accessing document elements ------------------------------------------ */
+
+function element(id) {
+ return document.getElementById(id);
+}
+
+/* --- JavaScript tricks ---------------------------------------------------- */
+
+// To be able to object methods that refer to "this" as callbacks
+// See section 3.3 of https://github.com/spencertipping/js-in-ten-minutes/raw/master/js-in-ten-minutes.pdf
+function bind(f, this_value) {
+ return function () {return f.apply (this_value, arguments)};
+};
+
+/* --- JSONP ---------------------------------------------------------------- */
+
+// Inspired by the function jsonp from
+// http://www.west-wind.com/Weblog/posts/107136.aspx
+// See also http://niryariv.wordpress.com/2009/05/05/jsonp-quickly/
+// http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON#JSONP
+function jsonp(url,callback)
+{
+ if (url.indexOf("?") > -1)
+ url += "&jsonp="
+ else
+ url += "?jsonp="
+ url += callback;
+ //url += "&" + new Date().getTime().toString(); // prevent caching
+
+ var script = empty("script");
+ script.setAttribute("src",url);
+ script.setAttribute("type","text/javascript");
+ document.body.appendChild(script);
+}
+
+var json = {next:0};
+
+// Like jsonp, but instead of passing the name of the ballback function, you
+// pass the callback function directly, making it possible to use anonymous
+// functions.
+function jsonpf(url,callback)
+{
+ var name="callback"+(json.next++);
+ json[name]=function(x) { delete json[name]; callback(x); }
+ jsonp(url,"json."+name);
+}
+
+/* --- AJAX ----------------------------------------------------------------- */
+
+function GetXmlHttpObject(handler)
+{
+ var objXMLHttp=null
+ if (window.XMLHttpRequest)
+ {
+ objXMLHttp=new XMLHttpRequest()
+ }
+ else if (window.ActiveXObject)
+ {
+ objXMLHttp=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP")
+ }
+ return objXMLHttp
+}
+
+function ajax_http_get(url,callback) {
+ var http=GetXmlHttpObject()
+ if (http==null) {
+ alert ("Browser does not support HTTP Request")
+ return
+ }
+ var statechange=function() {
+ if (http.readyState==4 || http.readyState=="complete") {
+ if(http.status==200) callback(http.responseText);
+ else alert("Request for "+url+" failed: "
+ +http.status+" "+http.statusText);
+ }
+ }
+ http.onreadystatechange=statechange;
+ http.open("GET",url,true)
+ http.send(null)
+ //dump("http get "+url+"\n")
+ return http
+}
+
+// JSON via AJAX
+function ajax_http_get_json(url,cont) {
+ ajax_http_get(url,function(txt) { cont(eval("("+txt+")")); });
+}
+
+function sameOrigin(url) {
+ return hasPrefix(url,location.protocol+"//"+location.host+"/");
+}
+
+// Use AJAX when possible, fallback to JSONP
+function http_get_json(url,cont) {
+ if(sameOrigin(url)) ajax_http_get_json(url,cont);
+ else jsonpf(url,cont);
+}
+
+
+/* --- HTML construction ---------------------------------------------------- */
+function text(s) { return document.createTextNode(s); }
+
+function node(tag,as,ds) {
+ var n=document.createElement(tag);
+ for(var a in as) n.setAttribute(a,as[a]);
+ for(var i in ds) n.appendChild(ds[i]);
+ return n;
+}
+
+function empty(tag,name,value) {
+ var el=node(tag,{},[])
+ if(name && value) el.setAttribute(name,value);
+ return el;
+}
+
+function empty_id(tag,id) { return empty(tag,"id",id); }
+function empty_class(tag,cls) { return empty(tag,"class",cls); }
+
+function div_id(id) { return empty_id("div",id); }
+function span_id(id) { return empty_id("span",id); }
+
+function wrap(tag,contents) { return node(tag,{},[contents]); }
+
+function wrap_class(tag,cls,contents) {
+ var el=empty_class(tag,cls);
+ if(contents) el.appendChild(contents);
+ return el;
+}
+
+function span_class(cls,contents) { return wrap_class("span",cls,contents); }
+function div_class(cls,contents) { return wrap_class("div",cls,contents); }
+
+function p(contents) { return wrap("p",contents); }
+function dt(contents) { return wrap("dt",contents); }
+function li(contents) { return wrap("li",contents); }
+
+function th(contents) { return wrap("th",contents); }
+function td(contents) { return wrap("td",contents); }
+
+function tr(cells) { return node("tr",{},cells); }
+
+//modified for quiz (id added)
+function button(label,action,key ,id) {
+ var el=node("input",{"type":"button","value":label},[]);
+ if(typeof action=="string") el.setAttribute("onclick",action);
+ else el.onclick=action;
+ if(key) el.setAttribute("accesskey",key);
+ if(id) el.setAttribute("id",id);
+ return el;
+}
+
+//added for quiz
+function submit_button(label, id) {
+ var el=empty("input","type","submit");
+ el.setAttribute("value",label);
+ if(id) el.setAttribute("id", id);
+ return el;
+}
+
+function option(label,value) {
+ return node("option",{"value":value},[text(label)]);
+}
+
+function appendChildren(el,ds) {
+ for(var i in ds) el.appendChild(ds[i]);
+ return el;
+}
+
+function insertFirst(parent,child) {
+ parent.insertBefore(child,parent.firstChild);
+}
+
+function tda(cs) { return node("td",{},cs); }
+
+function img(src) { return empty("img","src",src); }
+
+/* --- Debug ---------------------------------------------------------------- */
+
+function debug(s) {
+ var d=element("debug");
+ if(d) d.appendChild(text(s+"\n"))
+}
+
+function show_props(obj, objName) {
+ var result = "";
+ for (var i in obj) {
+ result += objName + "." + i + " = " + obj[i] + "<br>";
+ }
+ return result;
+}
+
+function field_names(obj) {
+ var result = "";
+ for (var i in obj) {
+ result += " " + i;
+ }
+ return result;
+}
+
+/* --- Data manipulation ---------------------------------------------------- */
+function swap(a,i,j) { // Note: this doesn't work on strings.
+ var tmp=a[i];
+ a[i]=a[j];
+ a[j]=tmp;
+ return a;
+}
+
+function sort(a) {
+// https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Core_JavaScript_1.5_Reference/Global_Objects/Array/sort
+ return a.sort();
+ /* // Note: this doesn't work on strings.
+ for(var i=0;i<a.length-1;i++) {
+ var min=i;
+ for(var j=i+1;j<a.length;j++)
+ if(a[j]<a[min]) min=j;
+ if(min!=i) swap(a,i,min);
+ }
+ return a;
+ */
+}
+
+function filter(p,xs) {
+ var ys=[];
+ for(var i=0;i<xs.length;i++)
+ if(p(xs[i])) ys[ys.length]=xs[i];
+ return ys;
+}
+
+function implode(cs) { // array of strings to string
+ /*
+ var s="";
+ for(var i=0;i<cs.length;i++)
+ s+=cs[i];
+ return s;
+ */
+ return cs.join("");
+}
+
+function hasPrefix(s,pre) { return s.substr(0,pre.length)==pre; }
+
+function commonPrefix(s1,s2) {
+ for(var i=0;i<s1.length && i<s2.length && s1[i]==s2[i];i++);
+ return s1.substr(0,i);
+}
+
+/*
+function all(p,xs) {
+ for(var i=0;i<xs.length;i++)
+ if(!p(xs[i])) return false;
+ return true;
+}
+*/
+
+function map(f,xs) {
+ var ys=[];
+ for(var i=0;i<xs.length;i++) ys[i]=f(xs[i]);
+ return ys;
+}
+
+// map in continuation passing style
+function mapc(f,xs,cont) { mapc_from(f,xs,0,[],cont); }
+
+function mapc_from(f,xs,i,ys,cont) {
+ if(i<xs.length)
+ f(xs[i],function(y){ys[i]=y;mapc_from(f,xs,i+1,ys,cont)});
+ else
+ cont(ys);
+}
+
+function overlaps(as,bs) {
+ for(var i=0;i<as.length;i++)
+ if(elem(as[i],bs)) return true;
+ return false;
+}
+
+function elem(a,as) {
+ for(var i=0;i<as.length;i++)
+ if(a==as[i]) return true;
+ return false;
+}
+
+function shuffle(a) {
+ for(i=0;i<a.length;i++) swap(a,i,Math.floor(Math.random()*a.length))
+ return a;
+}