Question

I have made a jQuery plugin which makes a splash screen. It uses the animate function of jQuery and is initalized and fired by the following:

    $('#temperature_splash').splashScreen();

    $('.tempGraphButton').click(function () {

        $('#temperature_splash').splashScreen('splash', 300);

         //Here, I would like to make an ajax request when the animation has finished
    }

I would like to make an ajax request after the animations in the plugin has finished but I don’t know how. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Outline of the plugin code

$.fn.splashScreen = function (method) {
    // Method calling logic
    if (methods[method]) {
        return methods[method].apply(this, Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments, 1));
    } else if (typeof method === 'object' || !method) {
        return methods.init.apply(this, arguments);
    } else {
        $.error('Method ' + method + ' does not exist');
    }
}

var methods = {
    init: function () {
        //Some initializations
    },

    splash: function (time) {
        //Setting some properties

        splashScreenContent.animate({
            width: width,
            left: leftPos
        }, time).animate({
            height: height,
            top: topPos
        }, time);

        return false;
    }
}

})(jQuery);

Answer 1

just add a callback

var methods = {
    init: function () {
        methods.splash(1000, function() {
            //do something when animation is finished
            methods.ajax();
        });
    },
    splash: function (time, callback) {
        splashScreenContent.animate({
            width: width,
            left: leftPos
        }, time).animate({
            height: height,
            top: topPos
        }, time, function() {
            if (typeof callback==='function') callback.call();
        });

        return false;
    },
    ajax: function() {
        //do ajax stuff
    }
}

It’s just an example, you’ll have to figure out what options to pass and how to tie it into your plugin yourself.