Creating a jquery dialog as an API

In my current application I am using jquery UI dialog at many places , so I am planning to create a method like

 var MYAPP = MYAPP || {};

   MYAPP.overlay = (function(){
       $("#id").dialog();

   }());

This is my idea but now the problem is my overlay is used for different purp开发者_StackOverflow社区ose like overlay form, video, confirmation message etc. Is there a way I can have all the option inside my API . so I just have to call MYAPP.overlay("video",some other parameter) and it will create the overlay without have to repeat the code again and again....any idea or suggestion will be appreciated..

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I'm not sure what you are trying to accomplish with the immediately executing anonymous function, but you can do something like this:

MYAPP.overlay = function MYAPP$overlay(id, paramsObj) {
    // do something based on element type, id, or params obj here.
    $(id).dialog();

    // possibly return something if needed.
};

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yes you can use parameters. here is a very generic way of doing it:

MYAPP.overlay = (function(){
        // complex code ....

        return function(arg) {
          alert(arg);
        }
     })();

// example
MYAPP.overlay('hello');

will alert hello