Now that you mention, I used another approach for external manipulation, implemented in SerialScroll. I expose many custom events, that are to be triggered on the container, some accept/require arguments, some don't.
Using events allows one to have "protected" data, meaning, local variables that were generated within a specific call to the plugin, can be exposed but not in a public way. This avoids relying too much on $.data, internally, which can be tedious and slow. If you want to read some more, check SerialScroll's documentation, specifically, the section named "External manipulation, event triggering". http://flesler.blogspot.com/2008/02/jqueryserialscroll.html Cheers -- Ariel Flesler http://flesler.blogspot.com On 9 abr, 10:11, Klaus Hartl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Apr 9, 4:49 am, oravecz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > The jQuery tabs plugin demonstrates one approach, but it seems less > > efficient. Using Mike's example, highlighting would be added to DOM > > objects using: > > > jQuery('.targets').hilight(); > > > And any external API calls are made through the same interface: > > > jQuery('.targets').hilight('enableEffect', false); > > > The tabs plugin accomplishes this by keeping track of whether the > > object has been jQueried previously. If it has and the first parameter > > is a string, it invokes the method. The methods that are invoked are > > added to the new object's prototype. It's a bit awkward. > > > Is this the preferred way of achieving this? I haven't seen too many > > examples of jQuery plugins that, once applied, can be further > > manipulated by a callable API. > > This is what we decided upon as a unified API for *all* jQuery UI > components... But the pattern of method overloading is pretty common > throughout jQuery in general. > > There has been a very long discussion about this - too much to repeat > here -so if you're interested in the whys for that decision you should > have a look at the jQuery development list. > > --Klaus- Ocultar texto de la cita - > > - Mostrar texto de la cita -
