[jQuery] Re: Event namespacing - how to see the full event name?

[Andy Matthews]

You're allowed to pass in an array object along with each trigger method
call.
 
So this might work for you:
 
var call = 1;
$('.foo').trigger('bar.update',[call]]);
 
var call = 2;
$('.foo').trigger('bar.update',[call]]);
 
$('.foo').bind('bar', function(e,data) {
    if (data[0] == 1) {
        // I came from call 1
    } else {
        // i came from call 2
    }
});

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From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Guy Fraser
Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 1:34 PM
To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com
Subject: [jQuery] Event namespacing - how to see the full event name?


Hi,

I've been triggering several events as follows:

$('.foo').trigger('bar.update');
$('.foo').trigger('bar.show');

etc...

If I listen to the bar event on foo:

$('.foo').bind('bar', function(e) {
  // e.type = 'bar'
});

The event type property is always "bar" - how do I work out if "bar.update"
vs. "bar.show" was triggered?

I might be misunderstanding the event system (or more accurately it's
namespacing) but I imagined that I could listen to a specific "bar" event:

$('.foo').bind('bar.update', handler);

Or all "bar" events (bar.update, bar.show, etc):

$('.foo').bind('bar', handler);

When listening to all of them with a single handler, it would be useful for
the handler to see the full event name ("bar.update" instead of just "bar")
so I could switch on event type inside the handler.

I guess I could achieve the required effect using event data, but it seems
such a waste not to have the full event name in the event type (or possibly
a .name property could contain it?)

Any ideas?

Guy