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Hello,

I'm writing my first jQuery plugin and encouter some difficulties. Ik have my methods which are available to the public. Beside the public methods i have some private functions.

The plugin is chainable and each element can have his own settings. But beside that i want the plugin to have some 'global' settings. The problem is i can't get to these setting variables from whitin the private functions.

example:

1. (function($)
   {
       // define your methods here.
       var methods = {
           init : function (options) {
               var settings = {
                     propertyA: 'window'
               };
          
               return this.each(function(){
                  
                   // Each element will get it's own settings
                   var settings = {
                       propertyA : 'whatever',
                       propertyB : true
                   };
                  
                   // if options exists, lets merge them
                   // with our default settings
                   if ( options ) {
                       $.extend(settings, options);
                   }
                  
                   // Declare plugin and $plugin since callback functions will
                   // have their own "this"
                   var plugin = this;
                   var $plugin = $(this);
                  
                   /*
                    plugin code goes here...
                   */
                   $plugin.bind('click.pluginName', function(){
                       doSomething($(this));
                   });
               });
           },
           show : function (){},
           hide : function (){},
           update: function(){}
       };
      
       $.fn.pluginName = function( method )
       {
           // Method calling logic
           if (methods[method]) {
               return methods [method].apply(this, Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments, 1));
           }else if ( typeof method === 'object' || ! method ) {
               return methods.init.apply(this, arguments);
           }else{
               $.error( 'Method '+ method +' does not exists on jQuery.pluginName' );
           }
       };
      
       /*
       * PRIVATE FUNCTIOSN
       */
       function doSomething($obj){
           var $objectsettings = $obj.settings; // I want here the object settings
           var $pluginsettings = this.settings; // I want here the plugin settings which can be default
          
       }
      
   })(jQuery);

usage:

1. $('.mclass').pluginName({message:'hello'});

question:
How can i call the element settings and the plugin settings from within a private function?