Is there a better way to create an object-oriented class with jquery?
- by Devon
I use the jquery extend function to extend a class prototype.
For example:
MyWidget = function(name_var) {
this.init(name_var);
}
$.extend(MyWidget.prototype, {
// object variables
widget_name: '',
init: function(widget_name) {
// do initialization here
this.widget_name = widget_name;
},
doSomething: function() {
// an example object method
alert('my name is '+this.widget_name);
}
});
// example of using the class built above
var widget1 = new MyWidget('widget one');
widget1.doSomething();
Is there a better way to do this? Is there a cleaner way to create the class above with only one statement instead of two?
