Better integration/tolerance with the existing Craft MatrixInput JavaScript

[timmyomahony]

For the plugin to work we need to be able to make use of the MatrixInput JavaScript for each matrix field rendered on the page.

Craft stores reference to this class on the <div class="matrix-field ..."> element's DOM/$.data() so we can get access via:

var matrixInput = $matrixField.data("matrix");

The problem is there is no guarantee that Craft has finished loading the MatrixInput for any particular class. For example, if you do this immediately on the page load, matrixInput is undefined. JQuery doesn't have any build in listener for this, nor does Craft seem to have any registration pattern that you can use to listen for when the input has stopped rendering. Therefore the best you can do is either delay, or do some sort of back-off check.

[timmyomahony]

This is fixed now in 1.2.0

https://github.com/weareferal/craft-matrix-field-preview/releases/tag/1.2.0

I realised that you can use the Garnish event system to listen for the afterInit event that Matrix inputs and Neo inputs fire.