Stop jquery-ui datepicker from showing in beforeShow

Question

I wish to do something like this:

var showme = false;

$(\'#mydatepicker\').datepicker({
    beforeShow: function(input, inst) {
        if(!showme) {
               


        

Answer 1

Seems to be the closest I could get too, but I don't really want to have to use setTimeout here, it seems a bit hacky:

        var showme = false;

        $('#mydatepicker').datepicker({
            beforeShow: function (input, inst) {

                if (!showme) {

                    setTimeout(function () { $(input).datepicker("hide"); }, 1);

                }
            }
        });