jquery.extend.js

// Mostly ripped off from here http://santrajan.blogspot.com/2008/10/what-john-resig-did-not-tell-you.html
// Brings a semblance of class hierarchy to jQuery, and allows object to do things, not have things done to them!

var JX = {
  extend: function(bc, sc, o) {
      var f = function() {};
      f.prototype = sc.prototype;
      bc.prototype = new f();
      bc.prototype.constructor = bc;
      bc.superclass = sc.prototype;
      for (var m in o)
          bc.prototype[m] = o[m];
  }
};

JX.Component = function() {
  JX.Component.superclass.init.apply(this, arguments);
};
JX.extend(JX.Component, jQuery, {});

JX.Class = function() {
  JX.Class.superclass.constructor.apply(this, arguments);
};
JX.extend(JX.Class, JX.Component, {});

JX.createClass = function(name, superclass, definition) {
  JX[name] = function() {
    JX[name].superclass.constructor.apply(this, arguments);
    
    // Allows you to find DOM elements with $() and ask that element for it's JX object
    //   $('#some_div')[0].containerObject
    var objectName = name.substring(0,1).toLowerCase() + name.substring(1, name.length) + 'Object';
    if (this[0] != undefined) this[0][objectName] = this;
    
    // This removes 'this' from being the first parameter always passed to initialize
    var args = Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments);
    this.initialize.apply(this, args.splice(1, (args.length - 1)));
  };
  JX.extend(JX[name], superclass, definition);
}