Re: js/dom and "this" referencing

"rvj" <[email protected]> Tue, 11 May 2010 17:43:17 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.dom
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just from a methods invoked initially from constructor in the binding
which may call other methods using addeventlistener

my dumb approach is just to  create a common variable within the binding 
constructor

    thisbinding=this

and then use thisbinding rather than this instead

.. seems to work ok but just seems strange

I just thought that there might be something like top.this to refer the 
bindiing xulelement

thanks anyway

"Boris Zbarsky" <[email protected]> wrote in message 
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> On 5/11/10 3:50 AM, rvj wrote:
>> In particular, I want to  reference the value of "this" associated with 
>> an
>> XBL binding after one or more onload events fire
>
> Depends on where your listeners are coming from.  Who's calling 
> addEventListener?
>
> -Boris