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Widget functions within jQuery methods

in Using jQuery UI • 10 years ago

Hello,

I am currently developing a widget and was wondering if someone new a solution to this.

Basically I have declared a private method in my widget like so:

_mymethod: function(){ //something cool },

I would like to call this method inside something like this:

$('#droppable').droppable({
drop: function(event, ui){
//Call method here
}
});

However everything I try comes back as method is not defined or object has no method.

this._mymethod();
_mymethod();

etc

Any advice would be great..

Thanks..

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Replies(5)

kbwood.au

Re: Widget functions within jQuery methods

10 years ago

Can you show all your code? Or a page that demonstrates the problem?

Re: Widget functions within jQuery methods

10 years ago

I've threw together this quick short example. http://jsfiddle.net/PEU8X/

It should fire the method when something is dropped inside the <div> however always returns undefined.

Regardless if its this._customMethod or just _customMethod

Re: Widget functions within jQuery methods

10 years ago

Still havn't had any luck.

Has any encountered this or know how to make this work?

Thanks

kbwood.au

Re: Widget functions within jQuery methods

10 years ago

The this inside the drop callback is the droppable target. You need to save a reference to the widget outside the callback and then use that within it. Like this.

Re: Widget functions within jQuery methods

9 years ago

Hello kbwood,

That was spot on many thanks and apologises for late reply!

Keep up the good work!