Temporarily disabling events

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is there any way to temporarily disable events such as onLoadSuccess() from firing ?

This works, but is it the best way of achieving this ?

Code:

  function eventOff(obj,type,evt){
    var opt = obj[type]('options');
    if(!opt['__'+evt]) opt['__'+evt] = opt[evt];
    opt[evt] = function(e){};
  }

  function eventOn(obj,type,evt){
    var opt = obj[type]('options');
    if(typeof(opt['__'+evt]) == 'function') opt[evt] = opt['__'+evt];
  }
  
  
  $('form#head').form({
    onLoadSuccess: function(){
      console.log('default done message')
    }  
  })
  
  eventOff($('form#head'),'form','onLoadSuccess');
  $('form#head').form('load',{xxx:'yyy'});
  console.log('OFF-loaded');
  
  eventOn($('form#head'),'form','onLoadSuccess')
  $('form#head').form('load',{xxx:'yyy'});
  console.log('ON-loaded');
  
  eventOff($('form#head'),'form','onLoadSuccess');
  $('form#head').form('load',{xxx:'yyy'});
  console.log('OFF-loaded');

I would then like to extend the form so that I can call a preload() method that does not fire the onLoadSuccess event:

Code:

$.extend($.fn.form.methods, {	

  preload: function(jq,data){
    return jq.each(function(){
      var me = $(this);
      eventOff(me,'form','onLoadSuccess');
      me.form('load',data);
      eventOn(me,'form','onLoadSuccess');
    })
  },

})