whoa, sorry guys. the answer was right under my nose in the form of
the bind() function... hehe, chalk up another useless post for the new
guy. :)
On May 16, 4:45 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Hi guys.
> My problem before dealt with variable values rather than function
> access. Here I'm creating an onclick handler, which I want to execute
> a sibling function within the object that created it. I've got an
> object with several methods, like so:
>
> object {
> addArticle ()
> removeArticle()
> addElement()
>
> }
>
> Inside of my addElement I have an onclick assignment like so:
>
> deletef = function(id) {
> // create <img> and <a> elements...
> deleteLink.observe('click',function(id){this.removeArticle(id);});
> <---
> return deleteLink;
> div.appendChild(deletef(id));
>
> I know that the problem is that when I click the link, the function is
> now executing in the scope of the <a> element, not in that function. I
> tried to assign 'this' to a variable and pass that through, but that
> didn't seem to work either. ie.
>
> addElement (id) {
> var scope = this;
>
> deletef = function(id,scope) {
> // create <img> and <a> elements...
> deleteLink.observe('click',function(id,scope)
> {scope.removeArticle(id);}); <---
> }
>
> }
>
> Is there a way for me to preserve the scope from when It was
> originally created?
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