There are even two small plugins that enable you to do it quite
easily:
http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-dev/browse_thread/thread/b2f784b7575456dc/0cd276379f8a2f7d?show_docid=0cd276379f8a2f7d
On Dec 13, 9:27 pm, Marion <marion.newlev...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
> Thanks! all good suggestions. I went with
> $('#someid').myPlugin({
> doThis: ...,
> doThat: ... });
> One entry point, and lets me doThis and doThat both, which turned out
> to be useful.
>
> I'm still curious whether my original syntax could be made to work. I
> suspect the answer is "not easily".
>
> Marion
>
> On Dec 13, 5:14 am, Mike Alsup <mal...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > I'm trying to create a plugin with two entry points. You would use it
> > > like this:
>
> > > $('#someid').myPlugin.doThis(options);
> > > $('#anotherid').myPlugin.doThat(options);
>
> > How about one of these approaches instead:
>
> > $('#someid').myPluginDoThis(options);
> > $('#anotherid').myPluginDoThat(options);
>
> > or
>
> > $('#someid').myPlugin('doThis', options);
> > $('#anotherid').myPlugin('doThat',options);
>
> > or
>
> > $('#someid').myPlugin({
> > action: 'doThis'
> > /* other options */});
>
> > $('#anotherid').myPlugin({
> > action: 'doThat'
> > /* other options */
>
> > });
