Just to say a belated thanks to both of you for this help - it is very useful and helped me lots in learning how to use jQuery. I still have lots left to learn, but I'm finding it a great library.
cheers, DAZ On Dec 8, 8:35 pm, "Richard D. Worth" <rdwo...@gmail.com> wrote: > But also this is a jQuery UI callback, which means jQuery UI is already > passing two parameters to this function, event, and ui. See > > http://docs.jquery.com/UI/Droppable/droppable#options > > "All jQuery UI callbacks receive two arguments: The original browser event > and a prepared ui object, view below for a documentation of this object (if > you name your second argument 'ui'): > * ui.options - options used to initialize the droppable > * ui.position - current position of the draggable helper > * ui.absolutePosition - current absolute position of the draggable helper > * ui.draggable - current draggable element > * ui.helper - current draggable helper" > > So if you're interested in those, you can do > > drop: function(event, ui) { > dropped(foo, bar, event, ui) > //or > dropped(event, ui, foo, bar) > > }) > > or something like that. > > If the arguments that the plugin provides are sufficient (you don't need to > pass any of your own arguments), your setup might look something like this > > function dropped(event, ui) { > ... > > } > > $("#myDiv").droppable({ > ..., > drop: dropped > > } > > So you still just provide a reference to the function, regardless of how > many parameters it will be passed/what they are named. > > - Richard > > On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 3:15 PM, Michael Geary <m...@mg.to> wrote: > > > > From: DAZ > > > > Just one more question - what if I need to provide arguments > > > to the function? Don't these need to go in parens which will > > > then cause the function to be called immediately? > > > Then you wrap the function call in another function (typically an anonymous > > function, but could be a reference to a named function): > > > drop: function() { dropped(foo,bar); } > > > -Mike
