Use jQuery .trigger to call a custom function that returns a value

Question

Is there any way using jQuery\'s .bind() and .trigger() calls to execute a user defined function (ex: save ()) and act upon the return from the method? For example:

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Answer 1

I know this question is old, but maybe this can help someone.

As Paliath pointed, you can't return a value because the trigger event is asynchronous. What you can do, is pass a object as parameter to the event. By default, javascript objects are always references to the original.

eg.:

bind:

$(...).bind('example',function (evt,ret) { 
    ret.val = false;
});

trigger:

var ret = {ret:true};
$(...).trigger('example',[ret]);
if (!ret.ret)
    //event return false
else
    //event returned true