Hi, Your syntax is fine. If you're callilng explainYourself like this:
this.explainYourself(); ...it should work. How are you calling it? Because context (the meaning of the "this" keyword) is slightly different in JavaScript than in other languages using that keyword, and it's easily lost. For instance: var f; f = this.explainYourself; // Getting a reference to the function, not calling it f(); // Now I'm calling it That would fail because "this" would not be a reference to an instance of myClass when the function was called. Here are some resources for reading up on context: [1] http://blog.niftysnippets.org/2008/03/mythical-methods.html [2] http://blog.niftysnippets.org/2008/04/you-must-remember-this.html [3] http://www.alistapart.com/articles/getoutbindingsituations [4] http://proto-scripty.wikidot.com/prototype:tip-using-an-instance-method-as-a-callback-or-event-handler HTH, -- T.J. Crowder tj / crowder software / com Independent Software Engineer, consulting services available On Aug 15, 10:27 pm, Mojito <tokyot...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm a complete noob to Prototype and don't know how to call a method > from another method. > > I'm using the [URL="http://www.prototypejs.org/learn/class- > inheritance"]Prototype JS library[/URL] to make classes. > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++ > var myClass = Class.create({ > initialize: function() { > this.myValue = 5; > }, > returnHello: function() { > return 'hello'; > }, > explainYourself: function() { > return this.returnHello() + ", my value is: " + this.myValue; > }}); > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > In explainYourself(), I tried to call returnHello() and I got an error > saying this.returnHello() is not a function. What is the correct > syntax? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prototype & script.aculo.us" group. To post to this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
