Any option to trigger with code hide/show

[ctrlmaniac]

Any option to trigger with code hide/show

[dmorrison]

I would like to see this feature implemented too. Thanks for the useful plugin!

[ctrlmaniac]

Can you please explain me what you want to achieve?

[sdkcarlos]

Hide or show the sidebar without user interaction a Method like showSidebar and hideSidebar. This sidebar is very useful and i need to trigger these actions without user interaction

[ctrlmaniac]

By now there isn't such feature. I guess you should think of a trick by yourself.
However I will consider to add a feature like this in the next version of this plugin!

[sdkcarlos]

A quick & dirty solution for who need this too is to hide the opener with css and trigger the click event with jQuery : $("#opener").trigger("click");

Thanks for take the time to answer !

[ctrlmaniac]

@sdkcarlos can you please provide me some examples? Like the way you did this trick and when did you call that method?
I am willing to add this options so I am rewriting the plugin, it will be awesome if you'd explain me your situation!

[sdkcarlos]

I mean, for example : I have an asynchronous call (ajax) and it will get some data from the server , when this data is fetched I need to open the sidebar with pure javascript !

We need actually to open the bar ,click on the given selector :

selector.simplerSidebar({opener:'#otherselector'});

I used this plugin in Our Code Editor Free, an android app so in the simple case , a normal initialization worked.

But in other project I needed to trigger the bar when the akax call finished so I simply used :

$("#otherselector").trigger("click");

That did the trick for me , with the actual source Code of your project , a good possible fix to this is add some option like :

selector.simplerSidebar("show");

When executed, check if the plugins has been already initializated on the selector and show the bar, otherwise initalize it.
However this is just a suggestion and the plugin is working very well, with the trigger function the problem is solved (if someone needs the same Feature).

[ctrlmaniac]

This sounds a little complicated to me, but I will think of how to implement this feature!

[ctrlmaniac]

This is painful using the jquery plugin pattern. And since other patterns I tested lack of the ability to run truly multiple instances, I think that by triggering the click like you did is the best option!

I won't close this issue because I really committed to find the way that can coexist with jquery!

[ctrlmaniac]

The only smart way to toggle the animation is by triggering the trigger like @sdkcarlos did!