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Changing an object properties then calling a function inside a custom function with javascript

Title is probably a little messy. Basically what I'm trying to do is to create a custom function that will modify an object properties, then return that object, and then call a function.
A little background on what I'm doing : Trying my best with the Zendesk API to use a web widget on my webpage. Basically this web widget is configured to be a HelpCenter on startup, which then shows a button for either live chat or email, depending on the state. The main property in question here is called 'suppress' which disables one of the widget pages (chat, email & helpCenter). And my goal is to make that custom function 'suppress' 2 of the 3 widget pages so it only shows one. Then a API func called zE.activate() would open up the widget.
I know this is a lot of text, let me show you the code I've got so far :
<script>
function setChatPopOutProps(window) {
window.zESettings = {
webWidget: {
contactForm: {
suppress: true
},
helpCenter: {
suppress: true
}
}
};
return window.zESettings;
};
function chatPopOut() {
setChatPopOutProps(window);
zE.activate();
};
</script>
Now when I click on the button that has chatPopOut() assigned, the zE.activate() works since it opens up the widget, but basically the setChatPopOutProps(window) didn't seem to work.
I also tried the following :
Not returning window or window.zESettings
Putting everything under a single function by putting zE.activate() at the end of zESettings or just after the return window or window.zESettings
If you need to see the widget in action to have an idea, you can see it right here. Click on the green button on the bottom right, type anything, and you'll see the contact form button pop up. This button changes for a chat button when a live chat agent is available.
Now I know this is something that I should normally work out with Zendesk directly, which I tried, but they told me that there's nothing that can do what I'm trying to accomplish, but I really feel like this has something to do with the way I'm doing things in javascript and not the way the API is built..
Does anyone have an idea ? I would really appreciate it.
P.S. This is my 2nd post, so I apologize in advance for mistakes I probably made in this question.

Sadly, it turns out that what you are trying to accomplish just isn't possible. As the zE.settings get applied when the widget is first initialized, so there is no way to dynamically alter the widget settings without doing an action such as refreshing the page and re-initializing the widget. As far I can see from your code, I dont think you want to refresh the page everytime, and reinitialize the widget just to apply those settings that you listed above.

Attaching an event listener for left or right click - onclick doesn't work for right click

I am currently applying for an Internship Internship Link
One of the things that I noticed right away is that you click on upload cover letter or paste cover letter, you're redirected to the home page of the job invite site Job Invite and sadly you can't upload your cover letter. On the other hand, the upload resume works perfectly fine but paste resume has the same issue.
Does anyone know how to resolve this issue and and be able to submit a cover letter?
I am not a web guru but since I am applying for an engineering position, I am trying to find a way around this. I right clicked the upload cover letter link and inspected the link with the inspect element tool. I found that this function
onclick="jvAddAttachment2('jvcoverletter', 'qLY9Vfwx')
was going to get called when the button is clicked. Now going into the JavaScript file for this html page, Inspect Element -> Sources -> *careers_8.js?v=303, I tried to do a basic alert statement, from alert dialog, to do some debugging to see what the issue is. Here's the code now
function jvAddAttachment2(id, companyId){
alert("I got here");
....
}
I then did control s and the Inspect Element console outputted "Recompilation and update succeeded." so I am assuming the JavaScript file has been updated. However when I click the link(via right click, open new window), no alert box shows up. Does anyone know how to get the alert dialog to show up? I think I've done as much as I can with my working knowledge from one web development course haha.

You're looking for the contextmenu event for right click:
element.addEventListener('contextmenu', function() {
// code here
});
Please don't use inline js, like onclick in your html. The above sample is the proper way to attach event listeners.
You should get your element reference in javascript with var myElem = document.getElementById('the-id') or some similar function like document.querySelector, etc.
Then, you can easily attach both events like this:
// left click
myElem.addEventListener('click', myFn);
// right click
myElem.addEventListener('contextmenu', myFn);
If you're adamant to do this with inline js, that would be:
<div onclick="myFn()" oncontextmenu="myFn()"></div>
Full demo of both approaches for ya:
var myElem = document.getElementById('my-element');
myElem.addEventListener('click', myClickFn);
myElem.addEventListener('contextmenu', myClickFn);
function myClickFn() {
console.log('this is myClickFn!');
}
function someFn() {
console.log('this is someFn!');
}
<div id="my-element" onclick="someFn()" oncontextmenu="someFn()">Left or Right click me!</div>
Also, since you're wanting to pass parameters to the function you'll be calling on click, it is good to use an intermediary function for the event, and have that function call the other function, passing the parameters, like this:
function myClickFn() { // this is called on click
myOtherFunction('some', 'params');
}
That prevents you having to repeat the same function call, passing those same parameters in both places.

Make sure to close your onclick string at the end with a ":
onclick="jvAddAttachment2('jvcoverletter', 'qLY9Vfwx')"
And left click instead of right clicking.

onclick="jvAddAttachment2('jvcoverletter', 'qLY9Vfwx')"
I think that double quotation was absent.
demo

Check if the webpage has been modified

I am working on chrome extension for facebook. If you use facebook, you know that when you scroll down to the bottom of the news feed/timeline/profile it shows more posts. The extension actually adds a button beside the "like" button. So I need to check if there are more posts to add that button to.
Right now to check if the page has been modified, I use setInterval(function(){},2000).
I want to run a function when the user clicks the button. But this function doesn't work if I put it outside (or even inside) setInterval() – The Koder just now edit
How can I check if the webpage has been modified WITHOUT using a loop?
Example:
$(document).ready(function(){
window.setInterval(function(){
$(".UIActionLinks").find(".dot").css('display','none');
$(".UIActionLinks").find(".taheles_link").css('display','none');
$(".miniActionList").find(".dot").css('display','none');
$(".miniActionList").find(".taheles_link").css('display','none');
//only this function doesn't work:
$(".taheles_link").click(function(){
$(".taheles_default_message").hide();
$(".taheles_saving_message").show();
});
//end
$(".like_link").after('<span class="dot"> · </span><button class="taheles_link stat_elem as_link" title="תגיד תכל´ס" type="submit" name="taheles" onclick="apply_taheles()" data-ft="{"tn":">","type":22}"><span class="taheles_default_message">תכל´ס</span><span class="taheles_saving_message">לא תכלס</span></button>');
$(".taheles_saving_message").hide();
}, 2000);
});
In the future, this extension will use AJAX, so setInterval() can make even more problems for me.

If I understand correctly you want to get a notification when the page's DOM changes. And you want to do this without using the setInterval() function.
As your problem lies within the attaching event handlers to elements that are created after the page has loaded, you might be interested in checking out the jquery.live event attachment technique. I think it will solve your issue.
In general you want the page to throw a mutation event. There is a mutation event spec that might be what you're looking for. Here are some links that might be useful.
http://tobiasz123.wordpress.com/2009/01/19/utilizing-mutation-events-for-automatic-and-persistent-event-attaching/
Detect element content changes with jQuery

$(document).ready(function(){
setInterval('fun()',5000);
fun();
});
function fun()
{
alert(11)
}

jQuery click detection outside of specified area problem

Hey guys, ok, so, I have a jPlayer jQuery plugin playlist hidden on my home page (http://www.marioplanet.com).
Now, it is hidden by default and is only supposed to be activated upon clicking the image labeled "Music" in the upper-right-hand-corner of my header <div>.
This works great, and once an end-user clicks the image, a nice, slick slideToggle action occurs on the <div id="player"> element and it is revealed.
Now, everything holds.
Until, the end-user clicks anywhere except the Music image again, the <div id="player"> element will slideToggle yet again, vanishing.
The only problem, is when the end-user clicks upon the Music image again, because, as far as I know, it slideToggles twice!
That is definitely not what we want.
So, here is the code which was adapted by Magnar's helpful post:
$('#text_music').click(function() {
$('#jplayer').slideToggle(500, function() {
$("body").click(function (event) {
var outside = $(event.originalTarget).parents("#popup").length === 0;
if (outside) {
$("#jplayer").slideToggle(500);
$("body").unbind("click");
}
});
});
});
#text_music is my image reading "Music"
#jplayer is my <div> containing my jPlayer plugin
So, what I want to try and do is declare a variable, just like how var outside is declared in the above code, which handles with the clicking of the #text_music image once the #jplayer <div> is already visible.
However, I need a little assistance in understanding the meaning of this variable.
Anyone want to offer any words of wisdom?
:) Thanks!

Have a look at jQuery outside events plugin to detect events outside of the specific element.

A few jQuery questions

First of all, here is the site I am working on.
I am trying to get a modal window to pop-up when elements in the Flash are clicked on. Which at this point I have about 90% working when you click on the warrior image. Below is a list of issues I am still trying to solve that I hope you can help me with...
The modal background doesn't fill up
the whole page like it should.
I cannot get the close button to work
I need to set the vidname variable in
both the Flash and Java to load in a
dynamic HTML file. Depending on which
image is clicked on. My naming
convention will probably be something
like vid-1.html, vid-2.html, etc.
If you need to look at the .js file you can view it at /cmsjs/jquery.ha.js
Below is the ActionScript I currently have...
var vidname = "modal.html";
peeps.vid1.onRelease = function() {
getURL('javascript:loadVid(\'' + vidname + '\');');
};

Well I have one for you.
Your current close code is
$('#modalBG, #modalClose').click(function(){
closeModal();
});
If you click the background after a video loads you'll see that the modal does close. The reason your close button does not work is because #modalClose does not exist in the DOM when you are binding to the click function.
You need to either rebind the modalClose element when you modify the DOM or use live. If you use live you just need to change your click code to this:
$('#modalBG, #modalClose').live("click", (function(){
closeModal();
});