change strict to parse

2 files changed, 28 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/index.html b/index.html
index d6b52fe..c75c132 100644
--- a/index.html
+++ b/index.html
@@ -220,7 +220,19 @@
 					<dl class="defs">
 
 						<dt>controlType</dt>
-							<dd><em>Default: 'slider'</em> - Whether to use 'slider' or 'select'. If 'slider' is unavailable through jQueryUI, 'select' will be used. For advanced usage you may pass an object which implements "create", "options", "value" methods to use controls other than sliders or selects.  See the _controls property in the source code for more details.</dd>
+							<dd><em>Default: 'slider'</em> - Whether to use 'slider' or 'select'. If 'slider' is unavailable through jQueryUI, 'select' will be used. For advanced usage you may pass an object which implements "create", "options", "value" methods to use controls other than sliders or selects.  See the _controls property in the source code for more details.
+<pre>{
+	create: function(tp_inst, obj, unit, val, min, max, step){	
+		// generate whatever controls you want here, just return obj
+	},
+	options: function(tp_inst, obj, unit, opts, val){
+		// if val==undefined return the value, else return obj
+	},
+	value: function(tp_inst, obj, unit, val){
+		// if val==undefined return the value, else return obj
+	}
+}</pre>
+							</dd>
 
 						<dt>showHour</dt>
 							<dd><em>Default: true</em> - Whether to show the hour slider.</dd>
@@ -345,8 +357,16 @@
 						<dt>maxDateTime</dt>
 							<dd><em>Default: null</em> - Date object of the maximum datetime allowed. Also Available as maxDate.</dd>
 
-						<dt>strict</dt>
-							<dd><em>Default: true</em> - Requires the time to exactly match the timeFormat when parsing. False will attempt to allow Javascript Date() to parse the time string.</dd>
+						<dt>parse</dt>
+							<dd><em>Default: 'strict'</em> - How to parse the time string.  Two methods are provided: 'strict' which must match the timeFormat exactly, and 'loose' which uses javascript's new Date(timeString) to guess the time.  You may also pass in a function(timeFormat, timeString, options) to handle the parsing yourself, returning a simple object: 
+<pre>{
+	hour: 19,
+	minutes: 10,
+	seconds: 23,
+	millisec: 45,
+	timezone: '-0400'
+}</pre>
+							</dd>
 					</dl>
 
 				</div>
diff --git a/jquery-ui-timepicker-addon.js b/jquery-ui-timepicker-addon.js
index f412793..44b85e9 100644
--- a/jquery-ui-timepicker-addon.js
+++ b/jquery-ui-timepicker-addon.js
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@
 			sliderAccessArgs: null,

 			controlType: 'slider',

 			defaultValue: null,

-			strict: true

+			parse: 'strict'

 		};

 		$.extend(this._defaults, this.regional['']);

 	}

@@ -1142,7 +1142,10 @@
 			return false;

 		}; // end looseParse

 		

-		if(o.strict !== undefined && o.strict === false){

+		if(typeof o.parse === "function"){

+			return o.parse(timeFormat, timeString, o)

+		}

+		if(o.parse === 'loose'){

 			return looseParse(timeFormat, timeString, o);

 		}

 		return strictParse(timeFormat, timeString, o);