Bummer.
Did you try:
this.addEventListener("mousedown", simpleButton_mousedownHandler);
The “this.” might be creating a pattern that isn’t handled. I’m sort of
hoping Mike will finish his mother-in-law’s bathroom and find time to
start in on some way to pass context so we don’t have to one-off these
patterns.
-Alex
On 7/14/15, 3:50 PM, "Josh Tynjala" <joshtynj...@gmail.com> wrote:
>Alex,
>
>The change you made worked for the case where the function is assigned to
>a
>variable, but it doesn't account for the function being passed as an
>argument to a function.
>
>This still doesn't work for me:
>
>this.addEventListener("mousedown", this.simpleButton_mousedownHandler);
>
>However, as a workaround, I can do this, for now:
>
>var mouseDownListener:Function = this.simpleButton_mousedownHandler;
>this.addEventListener("mousedown", mouseDownListener);
>
>- Josh
>
>On Sun, Jun 28, 2015 at 10:13 PM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On 6/28/15, 2:21 PM, "Michael Schmalle" <teotigraphix...@gmail.com>
>>wrote:
>>
>> >On Sun, Jun 28, 2015 at 5:17 PM, Josh Tynjala <joshtynj...@gmail.com>
>> >wrote:
>> >
>> >> Yes, that is correct.
>> >>
>> >> In case it wasn't obvious, event listeners are the typical use case
>> >>where
>> >> you'd pass a reference to a member function somewhere else where a
>> >> reference needs to be saved in a variable. AS3 made this easy by
>> >> automatically binding member functions. JavaScript usually requires
>>some
>> >> manual intervention to get event listeners to be called with the
>>right
>> >> scope.
>> >>
>> >
>> >Yeah the compiler does this already for anonymous functions, it
>>creates a
>> >self var pointing to 'this' and then uses self in the anonymous
>>function's
>> >body.
>>
>> Actually, that ‘self’ stuff is for AS lexical scoping. Josh is more
>> interested in the use of goog.bind for function identifiers. FalconJX
>> handles that correctly in most cases for addEventListener and other
>> callbacks, but I guess we don’t handle this scenario.
>>
>> I can try to take a look at it, but if you want to, search for
>>GOOG_BIND.
>>
>> >
>> >I wasn't aware of this problem though, can you create a JIRA ticket? I
>> >probably will be the one that tackles it since I am sure Alex doesn't
>>have
>> >time to do something like this and test it as well.
>>
>> Well, I can probably get it working, but I’m sure I won’t test it as
>>well
>> as you will.
>>
>> -Alex
>>
>>
