[thelist] advanced JS question - object scope issue perhaps
Tom Dell'Aringa
pixelmech at yahoo.com
Wed Apr 20 10:26:33 CDT 2005
--- Sam Foster <sam at sam-i-am.com> wrote:
> hi Tom,
> I didn't see any reply to this, and I'm not sure if you got it already..
> but here's a couple of thoughts.
[snip]
> Show is called as an object method, but when the setTimeout evals the
> anonymous function, oContainer is out of scope. You need to assign
> oContainer as a property of your object, and refer to that object by
> name (not 'this'.. this is also out of scope when the setTimeout evals).
>
> ... I think. Does that help, did you arrive at the same place?
Thanks for the comment Sam - turns out though I simply had my methods outside the class, instead
of inside. They were out of scope. I moved them inside and all was rosey. It's the simple things
that sometimes trip you up!
Tom
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