Adds #3744 - Calling dropdown() on select initialized as dropdown now works

RELEASE-NOTES.md

@@ -5,9 +5,22 @@
 **Critical Bugs** (1)
 - **Build Tools** - Fixes issue with deprecated uglify setting that could cause build tools to fail
 
+```bash
+GulpUglifyError: unable to minify JavaScript
+Caused by: DefaultsError: `preserveComments` is not a supported option
+```
+
 **Bugs** (1)
 - **Dropdown** - Fixed an issue where css rule for `focused default text` was not being applied for multiselects #5633
 
+**Enhancements**
+- **Dropdown** - Calling dropdown methods on a `<select>` turned into a dropdown will now automatically pass settings to the initialized dropdown, #3744
+```javascript
+$('select').dropdown();
+// somewhere later
+$('select').dropdown('onChange', function(value) { console.log(value) });
+```
+
 ### Version 2.2.11 - July 11, 2017
 
 **Critical Bugs** (5)

src/definitions/modules/dropdown.js

@@ -94,7 +94,9 @@ $.fn.dropdown = function(parameters) {
           module.debug('Initializing dropdown', settings);
 
           if( module.is.alreadySetup() ) {
+            console.log('fixing', $module.get(0));
             module.setup.reference();
+            console.log('new reference', $module.get(0));
           }
           else {
             module.setup.layout();
@@ -383,19 +385,16 @@ $.fn.dropdown = function(parameters) {
           reference: function() {
             module.debug('Dropdown behavior was called on select, replacing with closest dropdown');
             // replace module reference
-            $module = $module.parent(selector.dropdown);
+            $module  = $module.parent(selector.dropdown);
+            instance = $module.data(moduleNamespace);
+            element  = $module.get(0);
             module.refresh();
             module.setup.returnedObject();
-            // invoke method in context of current instance
-            if(methodInvoked) {
-              instance = module;
-              module.invoke(query);
-            }
           },
           returnedObject: function() {
             var
               $firstModules = $allModules.slice(0, elementIndex),
-              $lastModules = $allModules.slice(elementIndex + 1)
+              $lastModules  = $allModules.slice(elementIndex + 1)
             ;
             // adjust all modules to use correct reference
             $allModules = $firstModules.add($module).add($lastModules);
@@ -3517,6 +3516,7 @@ $.fn.dropdown = function(parameters) {
           ;
           passedArguments = passedArguments || queryArguments;
           context         = element         || context;
+          console.log(query, instance, context);
           if(typeof query == 'string' && object !== undefined) {
             query    = query.split(/[\. ]/);
             maxDepth = query.length - 1;