Cross plugins communication?

donnie

Hello,

I'm creating a custom plugin. I would like to save some information from this plugin, and retrieve this information from another plugin.

I tried to do this in my custom plugin:

oDTSettings.oInstance._oPluginColResize = this;

Then in the ColReorder plugin, I'm trying to retrieve this variable:

this.s.dt.oInstance._oPluginColResize // undefined :(

So it seems oDTSettings.oInstance and this.s.dt.oInstance are 2 different objects.

Could anybody please help?

allan

So it seems oDTSettings.oInstance and this.s.dt.oInstance are 2 different objects.

Correct - use the settings object itself. It is the only thing that is guaranteed to be unique for a table. The instance is not as you can have multiple jQuery references to it.

For example, consider: $('#myId') !== $('#myId'). They both point to the same element, but they are not the same instance!

Allan

donnie

Thank you for your fast answer allan, it's much appreciated!