On May 27, 8:37 pm, Luisgo <lgo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all... I was about to submit a ticket (enhancement) but maybe this
> has come up before so I ask here... what do you think about being able
> to pass more than one event to 'observe' for cases where one may want
> the same behavior to run for more than one event?
>
> I realize this can be achieved by extracting the function and passing
> it to observe for each event but I want to compress it even more by
> doing something like:
>
> $$('input[type=text]').invoke('observe', ['keyup', 'blur'], function
> (event){
> // some code ...
>
> });
>
> This would save me from doing:
>
> function doSomething(){
> // some code ...}
>
> $$('input[type=text]').invoke('observe', 'keyup', doSomething);
> $$('input[type=text]').invoke('observe', 'blur', doSomething);
>
> Maybe this can already be done some other way that I am not aware of?
I would do something like:
$$('input[type=text]').each(function(el) {
el.observe('keyup', doSomething)
.observe('blur', doSomething);
});
You can also do some chaining with `invoke`, but that could be
inefficient (2 loops, instead of 1 when using `each`) and looks a
little weird:
$$('input[type=text]')
.invoke('observe', 'keyup', doSomething)
.invoke('observe', 'blur', doSomething);
I remember there was a proposal once to support adding multiple
observers for multiple events:
myElement.observe({
keyup: onKeyup,
blur: onBlur
});
which can currently be written as:
myElement.observe('keyup', onKeyUp).observe('blur', onBlur);
If we were to implement such syntax, you would be able to write your
expression like so (which, IMO, looks pretty clean):
$$('input[type=text]').invoke('observe', {
keyup: doSomething,
blur: doSomething
});
I suppose your idea does make sense. I'm indifferent to it, but maybe
someone else will like it. We can try using an alternative syntax such
as - "foo | bar" or "foo, bar" - to eliminate array object creation,
but that might be ambiguous and not back-compat., considering that
custom events are currently allowed to include those characters ("|"
and ",").
Does anyone find this addition handy or is not worth it?
--
kangax
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