Stop jquery-ui datepicker from showing in beforeShow

Question

I wish to do something like this:

var showme = false;

$(\'#mydatepicker\').datepicker({
    beforeShow: function(input, inst) {
        if(!showme) {
               


        

Answer 1

Since this patch has not been merged in, I was able to come up with a hack that works pretty well. Let me know what you think:

beforeShow: function(){
    var start = $('#dtFrom').val()
    if($.trim(start)!=''){
        start = $('#dtFrom').datepicker('getDate');
        $('#DateToDisplay').datepicker('option', 'minDate', new Date(start.getTime()));
    }
},
    onClose: function() {
    var start = $('#dtFrom').val()
    if($.trim(start)==''){
        alert('Error! Please select a start date\/time prior to setting the date to display.');
        $('#DateToDisplay').val('')
    }
}