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First of all, I really like your mbContainerPlus plug-in, very elegantly done.

I am still trying to get my head around not only jQuery, but also your mbContainerPlus, so I am pretty much a newbie in this area.

I am trying to design a page which has two, (maybe three) containers, of which, I wish only one to be open at any given time. What I have so far is this: Containers are Iconized to a dock when pages loads, everything works fine when opening / iconizing / closing.

What I would like to do is iconize an open container when a docked container is toggled. I can think of the logic to check the states of the containers and iconize if open, but, I am unsure how to write the code or where to put it in the script.

Any help will greatly appreciated, Ian.

Merry Christmas too all, and Happy New Year :-)

Accepted Answer

i think you need a onBeforeRestore-Callback to iconize the open container before the new one open

first add the option (all in mbContainer.js)

  this.options = {
    ...
    onBeforeRestore: function(o){},
    onRestore:function(o){},
    ...

then insert the callback

  this.dockIcon= ....
          .bind("click",function(){
    if (opt.onBeforeRestore) opt.onBeforeRestore(container);

then insert the function in your code

  function before_restore(o){
    // iconize the proper container
  }

  $(".containerPlus").buildContainers({
    ...
    onRestore:function(o){restore(o)},
    onBeforeRestore:function(o){before_restore(o)},

or wait until Matteo puts this in a future release ;)

hope that helps Abu

Answer 2

Hello,

Thanks for your reply, as a side note, I seem to have forgotten my password, so am using a temporary log in.

JavaScript is not my strong suit, so I am trying what you mentioned, without success - probably due to my lack of understanding of how the code was written and implementation.

I will keep having a go, but at this stage, no luck for me.

Thanks for your help.

Ian.

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[closed] One containerPlus container open at a time

The question has been closed for the following reason "The question is answered, right answer was accepted" by Matteo Bicocchi Feb 11 '11 at 15:51

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