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Comment on Widgets within Widgets by emailtoid.net/i/736ea11b/…

emailtoid.net/i/736ea11b/… — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 13:54:52 +0000

Why can’t you just call destroyRecursive()? Actually, I’m confused about why there are two destroy methods in the first place. When is it useful to destroy a widget but not its nested widgets? TIA.

Comment on More on Dojo “plugins” by Learning Dojo | SitePen Blog

Learning Dojo | SitePen Blog — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:42:41 +0000

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Comment on A Dojo Plugin Pattern by Learning Dojo | SitePen Blog

Learning Dojo | SitePen Blog — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 07:02:36 +0000

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Comment on More on Dojo “plugins” by codylindley

codylindley — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:26:27 +0000

Slick! I really enjoy how this example can take a persons understanding of jQuery and extend it into the world of Dojo.

Comment on Widgets within Widgets by neonstalwart.blogspot.com/

neonstalwart.blogspot.com/ — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 18:02:09 +0000

i usually use dijit._Container and it is not quite as flexible as what you’ve done but it does have some child management functions and you would need to call destroyRecursive to make sure that the descendants are destroyed as well.

Comment on Widgets within Widgets by dante hicks

dante hicks — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 14:26:00 +0000

@nathan – _supportingWidgets is there, yes. Granted in this example we include _templated, but _supportingWidgets is both _private (so no guarantee our added stuff will always stay working) and only present when widgetsInTemplate:true. Not all of our Thingers need _Templated or widgetsInTemplate (added overhead, albeit minimal). This is why I decided to introduce the _addedItems array for just this. If dijit._Widget had this API internally, it would probably just piggyback on the _supportingWidgets array, as they both serve the same purpose.

Comment on Widgets within Widgets by toonetown

toonetown — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 13:44:42 +0000

We add our internally-created widgets to _supportingWidgets and then things “just work” since the base _Widget class cleans all those up.

Comment on Widgets within Widgets by Matthew Weier O'Phinney

Matthew Weier O'Phinney — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 13:33:53 +0000

Awesome post — this is a problem I’ve run into a number of times, and typically created some fairly complex destroyRecursive() functionality for. Your “extra keystrokes” are a ton less than I was using previously. :)

Comment on 140 Characters of awesome by google.com/profiles/jr…

google.com/profiles/jr… — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 03:01:39 +0000

How do you feel about allowing the addContent arg as either addContent: “first” (or things like that) as an extraArgs argument? I know that muddies things, it is now not just extraArgs just for the XHR call, but might be nice.

But it might be nice to use allow setting method as a property on extraArgs. That fits in with the XHR model a bit, and then the addContent position can be the third arg. Or just add it as a property on extraArgs too. Not sure yet what works better.

I would also like to see if we could reconcile it with jquery’s load, ideally we could have it operate like load, but have some special sauce to do the above if needed. That might be too big, but another thought.

Neat method!

Comment on 140 Characters of awesome by lazutkin.com/

lazutkin.com/ — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:56:28 +0000

I like the final function the best. Cool stuff!