Hi,
Within the function called by #each, by default the context (the
this value) is a reference to the global object ('window', on web
browsers), not the same context as the code calling #each. This is
how JavaScript functions work: Unless you do something to explicitly
set this when calling them, they default to this being the global
object. More on this in this blog entry[1].
Because of that, #each has a second parameter[2] that sets the context
to use when calling the function. So this would work:
var Deletr = Class.create({
initialize: function(options) {
this.list = new Array();
$$('a.deletr').each(function(element) {
this.list.push(element);
}, this);
}
});
All I did there was add the second parameter to #each.
BTW, slightly OT, but you could replace that entire loop with this
line of code:
this.list = $$('a.deletr');
Unlike DOM methods, Prototype's various DOM wrappers return arrays,
not live lists, so you don't have to make a copy. If you really did
want to make a copy for some reason, you could do that via the $A
function[3] rather than an #each loop.
[1] http://blog.niftysnippets.org/2008/04/you-must-remember-this.html
[2] http://prototypejs.org/api/enumerable/each
[3] http://prototypejs.org/api/utility/dollar-a
HTH,
--
T.J. Crowder
tj / crowder software / com
Independent Software Engineer, consulting services available
On Jul 7, 10:50 pm, David Behler d.beh...@gmail.com wrote:
Why does this work:
var Deletr = Class.create({
initialize: function(options) {
var list = new Array();
$$('a.deletr').each(function(element) {
list.push(element);
});
}
});
But this does not?
var Deletr = Class.create({
initialize: function(options) {
this.list = new Array();
$$('a.deletr').each(function(element) {
this.list.push(element);
});
}
});
Firebug reports:
this.list is undefined
this.list.push(element);
Is there a way to access class attributes when I'm using each to
iterate over an array?
That would be really helpful!
Thanks
David
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