title: jquery ui dialog - button click event handlers
body: <p>I'm a js noob. I'm using the jquery FullCalendar plugin which exposes an eventClick(calEvent, jsEvent, view) event which is called when you click on an event on the calendar. In my event handler I want to pop up a dialog asking if the user wants to edit just one occurrence of a recurring event or the whole event. The problem is that the button click handlers for THAT dialog need to have access to the calEvent variable, but I have to instantiate the dialog inside $(document).ready but outside of the eventClick function. </p>
  
  <p>Here's my code so far:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$(document).ready(function() {
    $('#calendar').fullCalendar({
      events: getEvents,
      header: {
        left: 'title',
        center: 'prev,next',
        right: 'today month agendaWeek agendaDay'
      },
      theme: true,
      eventClick: function(calEvent, jsEvent, view) {
        if(calEvent.readOnly == true) {
          return;
        }
        if(calEvent.recurring) {
          if(calEvent.persisted) {
            editOccurrence(calEvent);
          } else {
            $("#edit_type_dialog").dialog("open");
          }
        } else {
          editEvent(calEvent);
        }
      }
    });
  
    $("#edit_type_dialog").dialog({
      modal:true,
      autoOpen: false,
      buttons: {
        All:function() {
          $(this).dialog("close");
          editEvent(calEvent);
        },
        This:function() {
          $(this).dialog("close");
          editOccurrence(calEvent);
        },
        Cancel:function() {
          $(this).dialog("close");
        }
      }
    });
  
    function getEvents(start, end, callback) {
      //get some events
    }
  
    function editEvent(calEvent) {
      alert("event edited");
    }
  
    function editOccurrence(calEvent) {
      alert("occurrence edited"); 
    }
  });
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>So the question boils down to: how do I get the calEvent over to the button click event handlers in the edit_type_dialog from the eventClick function?</p>