> Thanks very much for your reply and the information. What I'm hoping
> to be able to do is to provide a plug-in API for my jQuery plug-in
> which will allow the new API functions to be able to access the
> private methods which I use. I know you can't force something to
> expose private methods (or they wouldn't be private!) but what I was
> wondering was if it was possible to allow access to those methods if
> you know that you want to do this (without making everything
> public)...
>
> Here is the basic idea for what I want to do in code (and with the
> eval/toString method I described above):
>
> fnApi = function () {
> console.log( 'API function is running with required scope:
> '+iPi );
> }
>
> fnContainer = function () {
> var iPi=3.141592;
>
> this.fnApi = eval( '('+ fnApi.toString()+')' );
> };
>
> var oContainer = new fnContainer();
> oContainer.fnApi();
>
> Many thanks,
> Allan
Here's one approach (view source):
http://jquery.malsup.com/test/feb14.html
