Way to trigger the popover from the controller or component

[karjac14]

Is there a way to trigger hide/show the popover from the controller's or component's action, instead of from click, hover and focus.

Thanks.

[nadnoslen]

Hey @karjac14,
That's an interesting use-case that I hadn't needed to consider until now. I'm going to open up the dummy app and try a couple of things. I'll get you an answer soon... It might start out as a hack but I will come up with something more elegant after putting some thought into it. Cheers.

[nadnoslen]

Hey @karjac14,
My hack idea was to simply use jQuery+Bootstrap3 to manually invoke the popover but that won't work because of the way that I've created the content and title components. These elements will not appear in the DOM until they have been "shown" and as such you can't just select them and tell them to show themselves!

Anyway, I have another idea that uses closures. I'll start working on it this afternoon. It will require a code change and new release of the ember-cli-bootstrap3-popover add-on.

Cheers.

[karjac14]

Hey @nadnoslen, Thanks for the response. For now, I used a jQuery hack too. I think my use-case is pretty unusual, and popOvers should show up based where (positionally) user had clicked. Though the
original bootstrap has a method of $.(#mybutton).popover('show') where we can invoke a show or hide from the JS side.

If you come up with something elegant, I'm following this thread and I will know. Thanks in advance. This library package is great.

[mrfisher8432]

I like the closure idea too. I was thinking that we could add another param to the main handlebars code where a user could specify a class or id, and then use that selector in the javascript to manipulate the popover. IDs would be good in the case of using multiple popovers on the same page. Just a thought.

[nadnoslen]

Thanks for the positive feedback. I'm drowning on another project at the moment but I will put together a plan for a closure routine and get the add-on upgraded as soon as possible.

Cheers.