Module Lifecycle

Instantiation

All modules are instantiated when a Pointeract instance is constructed.

Start and Stop

To turn on/off modules at runtime, also use start() and stop(). For these two methods, if you do not pass any arguments, they will start/stop the Pointeract instance; otherwise the specified modules. All modules passed in are enabled by default at Pointeract construction.

You start/stop modules by passing in the constructors of modules, the methods accept a single module or an array of modules:

pointeract.start(PreventDefault); // single module
pointeract.stop([PreventDefault, Drag]); // multiple modules

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Note that the start/stop of modules are independent to the start/stop of the base class: when the base class is stopped, all modules will be paused; but when the base class is started, only modules not explicitly stopped will be resumed. E.g.:

// remember we have modules PreventDefault and Drag
pointeract.stop(); // everything is paused
pointeract.stop(PreventDefault); // no apparent change, but PreventDefault is disabled at module level
pointeract.start(); // only the base class and Drag are started
pointeract.start(PreventDefault); // PreventDefault will not be restarted unless explicitly reenabled here

WARNING

You cannot start/stop a module that is not passed into the Pointeract constructor.

Disposal

All modules of a instance are collectively disposed when the dispose() it is called.