Questions tagged [backbone-events]

This is for backbone.js questions that specifically relate to Backbone's event handling system.

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Why does my simple backbone view click event not firing?

here is my scenario of backbone view var TreeNode = Backbone.View.extend({ tagName : "span", className : "ndelem dirnode", events : { "click" : "selectNode", }, initialize : function() { …
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Backbone.js: capture custom events on jQuery plugin?

I have a Backbone view for a search form. The form includes several elements, including a slider implemented in jSlider. I want to capture all changes to the form, and update the results shown accordingly. I can capture the click events fine, but I…
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Passing 'drop' in the context of a draggable backbone view, and passing ui.position into it

I'm trying to make a mock-up application for prototyping apps, using backbone & jQuery. It's pretty minimal at this point. http://jsfiddle.net/IgnorantUser/u7JkX/ I just have 2 models Canvas and ButtonWidget. There are also 3 Views: the CanvasView…
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How to handle a simple click event in Backbone.js?

I am having difficulty with something very simple in Backbone. I want to wire up the

in my page so that when the user clicks on it, it returns seamlessly to the homepage, without a postback. This is the HTML:

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jQuery & Backbone: How to append a view on drop event, under certain conditions

I have the following View of my CanvasModel, on which the user can drag & drop various widgets from a toolbar. Whenever something is dropped into the CanvasView a new WidgetView instance will be appended into the DOM. The recently appended Widget is…
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BackboneJS + RequireJS allow view to act on a collection using global event dispatcher

Update: Problems solved, case closed. I'm still having problems getting one part of my code to work. My view now listens to the collection for updates, and what should happen is: ListView listens to Results Collection Results are synced ListView…
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Backbone.js touch events

In backbone what's the best way to swap out click events for touch events. I went down the route of using MBP.fastbutton which worked well for iOS however I am trying to move my code over to Android and need to use iScroll which doesn't seem to…
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Backbone.js - Correct event to bind when creating a model

I have a Backbone view that binds to the add event of a notes collection like this (using CoffeeScript): initialize: () -> @options.notes.bind('add', @noteAdded) And here's the noteAdded method and also the addOneNote method that is…
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Backbone collection is not updating when api is polled

I'm having some trouble getting change events to fire when a model is updated via polling of an endpoint. I'm pretty sure this is because the collection is not actually updated. I'm using the new option (update: true) in Backbone 0.9.9 that tries to…
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Bind and trigger backbone event to a specific view

I'm creating an ajax upload component which consists of a progress bar for each backbone view, this is how my view template looks like.