Built-In Namespace _global_

Field Summary
Field Attributes	Field Name and Description
	field
	sync

Method Summary
Method Attributes	Method Name and Description
<static>	CalendarFactory(options) Factory method to create a new instance of a calendar subclass.
<static>	DateFactory(options) Factory method to create a new instance of a date subclass.
<static>	isAlnum(ch) Return whether or not the first character is alphabetic or numeric.
<static>	isAlpha(ch) Return whether or not the first character is alphabetic.
<static>	isAscii(ch) Return whether or not the first character is in the ASCII range.
<static>	isBlank(ch) Return whether or not the first character is a blank character.
<static>	isCntrl(ch) Return whether or not the first character is a control character.
<static>	isDigit(ch) Return whether or not the first character is a digit character in the Latin script.
<static>	isGraph(ch) Return whether or not the first character is any printable character other than space.
<static>	isIdeo(ch) Return whether or not the first character is an ideographic character.
<static>	isLower(ch) Return whether or not the first character is lower-case.
<static>	isPrint(ch) Return whether or not the first character is any printable character, including space.
<static>	isPunct(ch) Return whether or not the first character is punctuation.
<static>	isScript(ch, script) Return whether or not the first character in the given string is in the given script.
<static>	isSpace(ch) Return whether or not the first character is a whitespace character.
<static>	isUpper(ch) Return whether or not the first character is upper-case.
<static>	isXdigit(ch) Return whether or not the first character is a hexadecimal digit written in the Latin script.
<static>	MeasurementFactory(options) Create a measurement subclass instance based on a particular measure required.
<static>	PhoneHandlerFactory(locale, plan) Creates a phone handler instance that is correct for the locale.

Field Detail

field

Defined in: ilib-full-dyn.js.

sync

Defined in: ilib-full-dyn.js.

Method Detail

<static> {Calendar} CalendarFactory(options)

Factory method to create a new instance of a calendar subclass.

The options parameter can be an object that contains the following properties:

type - specify the type of the calendar desired. The list of valid values changes depending on which calendars are defined. When assembling your iliball.js, include those calendars you wish to use in your program or web page, and they will register themselves with this factory method. The "official", "gregorian", and "julian" calendars are all included by default, as they are the standard calendars for much of the world.
locale - some calendars vary depending on the locale. For example, the "official" calendar transitions from a Julian-style calendar to a Gregorian-style calendar on a different date for each country, as the governments of those countries decided to adopt the Gregorian calendar at different times.
onLoad - a callback function to call when the calendar object is fully loaded. When the onLoad option is given, the calendar factory will attempt to load any missing locale data using the ilib loader callback. When the constructor is done (even if the data is already preassembled), the onLoad function is called with the current instance as a parameter, so this callback can be used with preassembled or dynamic loading or a mix of the two.
sync - tell whether to load any missing locale data synchronously or asynchronously. If this option is given as "false", then the "onLoad" callback must be given, as the instance returned from this constructor will not be usable for a while.
loadParams - an object containing parameters to pass to the loader callback function when locale data is missing. The parameters are not interpretted or modified in any way. They are simply passed along. The object may contain any property/value pairs as long as the calling code is in agreement with the loader callback function as to what those parameters mean.

If a locale is specified, but no type, then the calendar that is default for the locale will be instantiated and returned. If neither the type nor the locale are specified, then the calendar for the default locale will be used.
Defined in: ilib-full-dyn.js.

Parameters:
{Object=} options: options controlling the construction of this instance, or undefined to use the default options

Returns:: {Calendar} an instance of a calendar object of the appropriate type

<static> {IDate} DateFactory(options)

Factory method to create a new instance of a date subclass.

The options parameter can be an object that contains the following properties:

type - specify the type/calendar of the date desired. The list of valid values changes depending on which calendars are defined. When assembling your iliball.js, include those date type you wish to use in your program or web page, and they will register themselves with this factory method. The "gregorian", and "julian" calendars are all included by default, as they are the standard calendars for much of the world. If not specified, the type of the date returned is the one that is appropriate for the locale. This property may also be given as "calendar" instead of "type".
onLoad - a callback function to call when the date object is fully loaded. When the onLoad option is given, the date factory will attempt to load any missing locale data using the ilib loader callback. When the constructor is done (even if the data is already preassembled), the onLoad function is called with the current instance as a parameter, so this callback can be used with preassembled or dynamic loading or a mix of the two.
sync - tell whether to load any missing locale data synchronously or asynchronously. If this option is given as "false", then the "onLoad" callback must be given, as the instance returned from this constructor will not be usable for a while.
loadParams - an object containing parameters to pass to the loader callback function when locale data is missing. The parameters are not interpretted or modified in any way. They are simply passed along. The object may contain any property/value pairs as long as the calling code is in agreement with the loader callback function as to what those parameters mean.

The options object is also passed down to the date constructor, and thus can contain the the properties as the date object being instantiated. See the documentation for GregorianDate, and other subclasses for more details on other parameter that may be passed in.

Please note that if you do not give the type parameter, this factory method will create a date object that is appropriate for the calendar that is most commonly used in the specified or current ilib locale. For example, in Thailand, the most common calendar is the Thai solar calendar. If the current locale is "th-TH" (Thai for Thailand) and you use this factory method to construct a new date without specifying the type, it will automatically give you back an instance of ThaiSolarDate. This is convenient because you do not need to know which locales use which types of dates. In fact, you should always use this factory method to make new date instances unless you know that you specifically need a date in a particular calendar.

Also note that when you pass in the date components such as year, month, day, etc., these components should be appropriate for the given date being instantiated. That is, in our Thai example in the previous paragraph, the year and such should be given as a Thai solar year, not the Gregorian year that you get from the Javascript Date class. In order to initialize a date instance when you don't know what subclass will be instantiated for the locale, use a parameter such as "unixtime" or "julianday" which are unambiguous and based on UTC time, instead of the year/month/date date components. The date components for that UTC time will be calculated and the time zone offset will be automatically factored in.
Defined in: ilib-full-dyn.js.

Parameters:
{Object=} options: options controlling the construction of this instance, or undefined to use the default options

Returns:: {IDate} an instance of a calendar object of the appropriate type

<static> {boolean} isAlnum(ch)

Return whether or not the first character is alphabetic or numeric.

Classes

Built-In Namespace _global_