Question

EDIT:

the jQuery UI selectable widget has a callback built into it, stop, I need to know how to trigger this event programmatically.

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(this was poorly worded)
I’ve attached an event listener to the jQuery UI Selectable Widget. How can I programmatically trigger the stop event?

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Ex Selectable:

$("table").selectable({
  filter: "tr",
  stop: function(){
    //do stuff
  }
});

// Various attempts at triggering the stop event
// one
$("table .ui-selected").click();

// two
$("table .ui-selected").select();

// three
$("table .ui-selected").trigger("click");

// shot in the dark 1
$("table").selectable('widget').trigger('stop');

// Shot in the dark 2
$("table").trigger('stop');

// really long shot in the dark
$("table").selectable('widget').call('stop');

Further Attempts

// selectablestop event

$("#table").selectable('widget').trigger('selectablestop');

$("#table .ui-selected").trigger('selectablestop');

Answer 1

If you want to trigger the event outside of the control you can simply call .trigger(). This assumes you are using the .bind() and not the anonymous stop:function() in options.

$("#selectable").selectable({});
$("#selectable").bind("selectablestop", function(event) {
    $("body").append("<h1>did selectablestop</h1>");
});
$(":button").click(function() {
    $('#selectable').trigger('selectablestop');
});

Code example on jsfiddle.

Edit

Another way would be to retrieve the stop: option value (which would be the function)

var s = $('#selectable').selectable( "option" , "stop"); 
s(); //call the function.

Code example on jsfiddle.