I've built a really simple jquery ui widget that just creates a slider and tries to bubble up the slide event. The code is below. However, this._trigger is undefined in this context. How would I re-trigger the event in this case?
(function($) {
$.widget("ui.timelineSlider", {
options : {
},
_create : function() {
var self = this;
var element = self.element;
var options = self.options;
element.slider({
slide:function (e, ui) {
this._trigger("slideHappened", null, {date: ui.value});
}
});
},
destroy : function() {
this.element.next().remove();
},
_setOption : function(option, value) {
}
});
})(jQuery);