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JavaScript

Posted by Geoffrey Signorato
Geoffrey Signorato
1,098 Points

How to handle events with a jQuery plugin?

Hi,

I am working on my own jquery plugin, given this architecture:

(function($){
    'use strict';
    $.fn.pluginName = function(options) {

        var defaultOptions = {
        };  

        var params = $.extend(defaultOptions, options);

        function pluginName(element) {
            this.$element = element;
            this.init();
        }

        $.extend(easyParallax.prototype, {

            init: function() {
                functionA();
                if (functionC()) {
                    functionB();
                }
            },

            functionA: function() {},
            functionB: function() {},
            functionC: function() {},
            destroy: function() {}

        });

        return this.each(function() {

            new pluginNAme($(this));
        });
    }
})(jQuery);

What I would like here:

  1. the functionA to execute only one time at the initialisation, not at every instance of "return this.each(function() {". But the var calculated in the function A should be available in other function ( B and C)
  2. on every window scroll event, having the functionA() running one time + functionB() running for every instance of each.