Widget: Handle super calls when method calls go up and down the inheritance chain.

Author: scottgonzalez

ui/jquery.ui.spinner.js

@@ -285,16 +285,11 @@ $.widget('ui.spinner', {
 				this.buttons.button("enable");
 			}
 		}
-		// TODO see below
-		//this._super( "_setOption", key, value );
-		$.Widget.prototype._setOption.apply( this, arguments );
+		this._super( "_setOption", key, value );
 	},
 
 	_setOptions: function( options ) {
-		// TODO _super doesn't handle inheritance with more then one subclass
-		// spinner subclass will have spinner as base, calling spinner._setOptions infinitely
-		//this._super( "_setOptions", options );
-		$.Widget.prototype._setOptions.apply( this, arguments );
+		this._super( "_setOptions", options );
 		if ( "value" in options ) {
 			this._format( this.options.value );
 		}

ui/jquery.ui.widget.js

@@ -66,9 +66,19 @@ $.widget = function( name, base, prototype ) {
 					return base.prototype[ method ].apply( this, args );
 				};
 				return function() {
+					var __super = this._super,
+						__superApply = this._superApply,
+						returnValue;
+
 					this._super = _super;
 					this._superApply = _superApply;
-					return value.apply( this, arguments );
+
+					returnValue = value.apply( this, arguments );
+
+					this._super = __super;
+					this._superApply = __superApply;
+
+					return returnValue;
 				};
 			}());
 		}