Hi all,
I was wondering what's the best approach to share settings between to
jQuery functions?
The scenario is this: I want to add a bookmarkable: true|false option to
the Tabs plugin to be able to switch off the changing hash in the URL.
No problem for the tabs function alone:
jQuery.tabs = function({ /* options object literal */ })
Unfortunately I have the other function triggerTab, that needs to know
of that setting as well.
What is the best approach? Some ideas I had:
* Attach every options object as property to a tabs container? I guess
this is the fastest solution. But is this clean?
* Maybe I can attach a custom event to the tabs (in the tabs function)
and simply trigger that one in the triggerTab function (that would also
proove, that I chose the name wisely :-) ). Jörn, you made some use of
custom events, don't you? Who else?
* Taking an OO approach, wrap both functions into an instance of a class
and have the settings at hand as private variable? Is that doable?
I would have to use apply for the chainable function to get "this" right
I assume.
* Pass the same options object to the triggerTab function, but I think
that's ugly.
I'm thankful for some help!
-- Klaus
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