I think I would still be able to chain after the initial plugin call,
but not on subsequent method calls... but I see what you are saying.
Interesting. So in your first example there I would be checking if the
argument was an object... and call init() if it was, otherwise examine
the string and call either advance or back.
I'll give that a shot. Thanks for the input!
Best,
Robert
On Jun 22, 3:39 am, Damir Zekić <dam...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jun 22, 7:10 am, Bob Spryn <bobsp...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Ok I actually figured it out, but I'm not sure if this is even a ok
> > way to be doing this.
>
> > Basically this just initializes the plugin and gives my variable the
> > advance, back, and reset methods with the appropriate settings.
>
> > var screenwizard = $("#someframe").screenWizard(opts)
>
> > Now I can do screenWizard.advance().
>
> > Is there a much better way to build something like this?
>
> With this approach you are removing the ability to chain functions
> after your plugin, which breaks the jQuery's convention and the
> principle of least surprise. The better interface for manipulating
> steps of the wizard would be to implement more standard approach with
> string parameters:
>
> // the screnwizard here is just jQuery object for #someframe
> var screenwizard = $("#someframe").screenWizard(opts);
> screenwizard.screenWizard('advance');
> screenwizard.screenWizard('back');
>
> You can examine type of the argument in your plugin function and then
> call respectively init(), advance() or back() functions.
>
> Another standardized approach would be:
>
> var screenwizard = $("#someframe").screenWizard(opts);
> $.screenWizard.back(screenwizard);
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