Question

I have an object that looks like this:

StandardFormat({
    HeaderFont: 'greentext2',
    HeaderLinkFont: 'bluelink3',
    Backcolor: 'Black',
        ...
});

So far, I have a function that has this form:

FormatGrid(ID, HeaderFont, HeaderLinkFont, BackColor,...){}

All the parameters are listed and must be supplied in the call. What I’d like to do is replace it with this:

FormatGrid(ID, Format){}

That way, I could write something like this:

FormatGrid('TopGrid', StandardFormat); and be able to send the id of the grid and any format object.

I’m kinda stuck. How do you merge the parameters?

Thanks for your suggestions.

Answer 1

You could do…

function FormatGrid(ID, Format) {
    var options;
    if (typeof Format != 'string') {
       options = Format;
    } else {
       options = {
          HeaderFont: arguments[1],
          HeaderLinkFont: arguments[2],
          Backcolor: arguments[3]
       }
    }

    // Here you could then access `options.HeaderFont`.
}

jsFiddle.

This unpacks to window however.