Comments on: jQuery UI Widgets

By: Danny

Danny — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 21:21:54 +0000

@Timothy Wall:
Good point. I’m updating this for jQuery UI 1.6 and I’ll make sure it all works. While the concepts are correct, this page is obsolete, since it assumes jQuery 1.2.6 and UI 1.5.3.

Danny

By: Timothy Wall

Timothy Wall — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:13:59 +0000

I notice that in the last example (Green7), mouse tracking is not removed in response to “off”. It probably should be, and would be a good example of extending the “destructor” .

By: Danny

Danny — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:13:03 +0000

I know they’ve changed things for 1.6, but until it’s released, I’m going to stick with 1.5 (I’m using the Google code loader, and it’s still on 1.5) (This means I’m also stuck with jQuery 1.2.6 for now, unfortunately)

By: Karthik

Karthik — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 07:05:38 +0000

Great article! It does appear that in the latest release, they have changed from init -> _init
though. You may want to update code snippets.

By: J�rn Zaefferer

J�rn Zaefferer — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 13:59:33 +0000

The datepicker will be refactored in the next release (1.7) to use the widget API, too. Namespaces are now automatically created, consider that fixed (since 1.6rc4).

Otherwise, great tutorial. I’ve added a link to it from the Developer Guide wiki page: http://docs.jquery.com/UI/Developer_Guide#Widgets

By: Marcus Cavanaugh

Marcus Cavanaugh — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 05:13:58 +0000

Well-written and useful. This should be required reading for people getting started with jQuery widgets.

By: Cristiano Verondini

Cristiano Verondini — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:15:33 +0000

Great tutorial. I did read ui.widget source, but with your help now everything fits in place. Thanks.