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
