Here's the link to my initial post with example code...
http://lists.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails-spinoffs/2006-March/002885.html
Enjoy.
On 8/18/06, Andreas Wahlin <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
This seems like a Good Thing :)
I think it would gain more acclaim with just a slight test-code page
*hint hint*
Andreas
On Aug 18, 2006, at 15:34 , Brandon Aaron wrote:
> Here is what I've been using for custom events in my projects.
> It is pretty straight forward and small.
> http://www.brandonaaron.net/prototype/src/event.custom.js
>
> You create an event like this:
>
> var Event.Custom('myEvent'[, someObject || window]);
>
> The first param is the name of the event, it defaults to
> 'customEvent'. The second param is global scope correction for all
> observers. It defaults to window.
>
> Then you can attach observers to it like this:
>
> onMyEvent.observe(function(event[, extra, params]) { /*...*/ }[,
> override scope || event scope ]);
>
> You can detach an observer by replacing observe in the previous
> example with stopObserving. I would suggest using the scope override
> instead of bind to properly stopObserving functions without having to
> create handlers for your observers.
>
> You can fire the event like this:
>
> onMyEvent.fire(eventObject[, param1, param2 /*... */]);
>
> The eventObject is something you would create ... by default it will
> contain a name property and has the name of the event when you created
> it. The fire method can take any number of extra params that will be
> passed onto the observers.
>
> You can unsubscribe all observers by calling
> onMyEvent.unsubscribeAll()
>
> Let me know if you use it and if it works for you. I just recently
> rewrote it ... so let me know if you run into any bugs.
>
> Brandon
>
> On 8/17/06, Seth Dillingham < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On 8/17/06, Brian Feliciano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > Hi guys!
>> > i know prototype can create custom events and can subscribe to
>> it, but is
>> > there already a library for this?
>>
>> < http://www.truerwords.net/articles/web-tech/custom_events.html>
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