It will actually be 2 instances of the plugin on 2 elements: $
('#test').data('bbcode'), and $('#test2').data('bbcode')
Thanks for those links, those will help me figure it out, although it
doesn't look easy :)
On Dec 6, 1:08 pm, "Richard D. Worth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Brian Ronk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > That might work. I'll tinker with that. How does it work with
> > multiple instances of the same plugin through? Where I'm using it, I
> > am going to be pulling data from 2 instances of the plugin. Maybe I
> > could have two different names... I think that would work.
>
> Data has support for namespaces. So if your plugin is called foo, and
> someone else has a bar plugin, each bbcode property can be separated be like
> so:
>
> $("#test").data("bbcode.foo", fooBbcode);
> $("#test").data("bbcode.bar", barBbcode);
>
> same for getting. So that's with two plugins with different names, but you
> maybe figure out something based on that. It's tricky to do two instances of
> the same plugin on the same element, because how does the user select one or
> the other? Get's even more complex if you have a set of elements (more than
> one element in the jQuery object on which you call your plugin method).
>
>
>
> > Although, I would like to know how to make my plugin accept a method
> > call.
>
> You can do it by inspecting the type of the first parameter passed to the
> plugin method. Usually that would be a hash containing init options. If it's
> called again and is a string then you can treat that as a method name, and
> do the appropriate thing (dispatch an internal function in your plugin,
> probably). This is all abstracted quite nicely in the widget plugin created
> by Scott González and Jörn Zaefferer. It's used as a base for all jQuery UI
> widgets, and can be found here:
>
> http://jquery-ui.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ui/ui.core.js
>
> You can look at most any jQuery UI widget for an example of use. Here's a
> fairly simple one:
>
> http://jquery-ui.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ui/ui.progressbar.js
>
> And here are some examples of use (including init, modifying options,
> calling methods, destroying):
>
> http://jquery-ui.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/tests/visual/progressbar.html
>
> Notice you can declare an _init (near the beginning of the file) that gets
> called at init (the first time the plugin method is called on an element),
> with optional options that override any defaults (declared near the end of
> the file). Any functions you declare without an underscore (_) at the
> beginning are public. Also notice you can declare _getData and _setData.
> These let you handle any get/set of your data keys in your plugin's
> namespace. It's really quite a nice factory. If you end up making use of it
> and have any further questions, you can get help on the jQuery UI list:
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-ui
>
> - Richard
>
> Richard D. Worthhttp://rdworth.org/
