Changing animateTarget in BasicDialog

[tbarstow]

I have a situation where I need to change the animateTarget of a dialog after the dialog has been created. My function that brings up the dialog is something like this (this code is contrived for illustrative purposes):



this.showMyDialog = function(animateTarget) {
if (!this.dialog) {
this.dialog = new YAHOO.ext.BasicDialog('myEl',{...});
}
this.dialog.animateTarget = animateTarget;
this.dialog.show();
}


Here's what's happening:
- User clicks LinkA, showMyDialog is called with LinkA as the single parameter (animation works)
- User closes the dialog (animation works)
- LinkA is removed from the document
- User clicks LinkB, showMyDialog is called with LinkB as the single parameter (animation works)
- User closes the dialog; error occurs because BasicDialog.hide() is still trying to reference LinkA as the animateTarget

To debug this I did two things:
- Use an event listener on BasicDialog.beforehide to dump my dialog with FireBug before it is hidden - animateTarget is LinkB as I would expect
- Dump this.animateTarget into FireBug's console from BasicDialog.hide - animateTarget is still LinkA!

Does anyone have any tips here? Any similar problems? I can't figure out why the looking at the dialog externally, I would see the correct animateTarget, but looking at "this" internally, I see something different.

Thanks a bunch
Taylor

[jack.slocum]

this.dialog.show(animateTarget);

[tbarstow]

thanks Jack, I tried that, but then it doesn't seem to animate the hide() (on the first invocation or future ones)

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[jack.slocum]

That's the syntax I always use and it animates on the hide back to the original element. Do you have any other details?

[tbarstow]

thanks for your help jack. since this isn't a mission critical problem I'm not going to take your time (or mine) to debug it right now. I probably will take a closer look at it soon though, so I'll post any interesting results here. thanks again.

[tbarstow]

huh, just a quick note on this, it does animate back if the dialog is cleared via dialog.hide(), but when I click the "close" icon, it doesn't animate. Looking at the code I can't understand why, I promise to try to debug this more deeply at some point soon.