creatable/creatable.backbone.js

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// Generated by CoffeeScript 1.4.0

/*
Add support for Backbone Views to Creatable's rendering pipeline.
*/


/*
Extend Backbone.View with a default render function that relies on build() to produce an s-exp representing the view.
*/


(function() {

  Backbone.View = Backbone.View.extend({
    render: function() {
      var el, that;
      that = this;
      el = $(Creatable.create(this.build()));
      $(this.el).empty().append(el).fadeIn();
      setTimeout((function() {
        return that.trigger("render", el);
      }), 0);
      return this;
    },
    build: function() {
      return null;
    }
  });

  /*
  Extend Creatable to support Backbone Views.
  */


  Creatable.types.push({
    isOfType: function(o) {
      return o instanceof Backbone.View;
    },
    build: function(o) {
      return o.render().el;
    }
  });

}).call(this);