It looks you were trying to pass scope to addEvent using a third argument,
but it does not work that way. As Piotr showed, you need to bind the
function.


On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 8:41 AM, Piotr Zalewa <[email protected]> wrote:

> http://jsfiddle.net/zalun/GwxvG/2/
>
> bind changes the scope, so this refers to the object and not to clicked
> element.
> If you're confused about what is "this" in a function simply
> console.log(this) as a first thing in this function will give you a hint.
>
> zalun
>
> On 02/23/11 16:29, roark wrote:
> > Hi Everyone.
> >
> > I've had a good read through the article Aaron wrote at
> http://jqueryvsmootools.com
> > and I'm really battling to understand scope or when to use "this" in
> > my classes etc.
> >
> > I'm writing a class that will display a help context when you focus on
> > a filed in a form.
> > http://jsfiddle.net/roark/GwxvG/1/
> >
> > When I click on a filed, i get "this.function_name" is not defined.
> > Trying to search google for the term 'mootools "this" ' is not very
> > successful as you can image so i was hoping soemone could have a look
> > and let me know where I'm going wrong?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Roark
>
>
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