backbone derp?

gistfile1.js

  RedrawCheckbox = Backbone.View.extend({
    el: '#redrawCheckbox',
    events: {
      'click' : 'checkState'
    },
    checkState: function() {
      this.trigger('redrawOnMove', this.$el.is(':checked'));
    }
  });

/** and in the jasmine spec **/
    it('sets state in the analyzer when clicked about whether or not to redraw while dragging sliders', function() {
      expect(this.a.sampleslider.redrawOnMove).toBe(false);
      expect(this.a.ampslider.redrawOnMove).toBe(false);

      $('#redrawCheckbox').click();
      //this.a.redrawCheckbox.trigger('click');
      expect(this.a.sampleslider.redrawOnMove).toBe(true);
      expect(this.a.ampslider.redrawOnMove).toBe(true);
    });

<!-- markup -->
 <table class="buttonHolder">
        <tr>
          <td>
            <input type="checkbox" id="redrawCheckbox" />
            <label for="redrawCheckbox">Check here to allow update
            the wave as controls are changed. (Can be very slow on
            non-GL browsers!)</label>
          </td>
          <td>
            <input type="button" id="redrawButton" value="Redraw the wave" />
          </td>
          <td>
            <div class="buttonHolder">
              <input type="button" id="playback" value="Play" />
            </div>
          </td>
        </tr>
     

Couple things, any reason why you are binding click events in initialize? Also, are you on gtalk? I'd be tempted to rewrite it as:

RedrawButton = Backbone.View.extend({
    el: '#redrawButton',

    events: {
        'click' : 'redraw'
    },

    initialize: function () {
      this.$el.button();
    },

    redraw: function() {
      this.trigger('redraw');       
    }

  });

a) backbone's wasn't firing for me, so i short-cutted and used jquery's.
2) yes
III) let me see if that magically works

Here's another option to try and get it to fire in your test.

this.a.redrawCheckbox.$el.trigger('click');

Backbone caches the jQuery wrapped object that represents the DOM node for your view in view.$el

Still red. You can probably see i've been rockin' those cached jQ objects in the previous specs, and I know they both have ridiculously similarly named eventing systems, but it's so weird that view.trigger('click') doesn't trigger view.events['click']'s function :O

I just cloned the repo, hacking at it :)

The good news is, if you ever need someone to break your JS, call me.

I don't care what @magnusstahre says about you, you're a swell dude.

Haha :D

Something is seriously messed up with those views, they aren't getting the normal jQuery event arguments proxied to them....

I even took jquery ui and those extra slider//dragslider plugins out of the equation and it's still borked, hmm.. still hacking :P

Breaking jquery es Brazil #1 huehuehuehue

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On Mar 30, 2012 1:53 AM, "David Mosher" < ***@***.***> wrote: Something is seriously messed up with those views, they aren't getting the normal jQuery event arguments proxied to them.... I even took jquery ui and those extra slider//dragslider plugins out of the equation and it's still borked, hmm.. still hacking :P --- Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://gist.github.com/2154978

First test green, fixing second then i'll give you a pull request with comments on what went wrong.