KILL ALL ZOMBIES

eg.coffee

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Example view usage

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# add popovers to all elements
# with the popover class, but
# don't trigger the fuckers
$('.popover').popover({ trigger: 'manual' })

# toggle the popover when the 
# button is clicked
@$el.find('button.popover').on 'click', (e) ->

    # toggle the popover
    $(this).popover 'toggle'




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We use a 'parent' app view
to load all other views into.
This guy forces some basic convention
on our views and cleans up all the mess we 
leave.

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class AppView extends Backbone.View

    showView: (view) ->

        # if a currentView exists, close
        # it before rendering the new view
        if @currentView?

            # call the extended function
            @currentView.close()

        # then render the new view
        @currentView = view
        @currentView.render()

        # and slot it into the DOM
        $('#content').html(@currentView.el)





# Then extend the BBone.View to add 
# some helper functions to kill 
# all the zombies, format dates,
# interpret scores etc. (partial)
_.extend Backbone.View.prototype, {
        
    # remove zombies when .close() is
    # called on the view
    close: ->

        # remove all events
        this.remove()
        this.unbind()

        # call the view's onclose
        # function
        if this.onClose
            this.onClose()

}