Oh yeah, I did remember the goog bind() for even listeners but it was
raining last night so I didn't put 2 and 2 together, blame it on the rain...

Mike

On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 5:13 AM, Michael Schmalle <teotigraphix...@gmail.com
> wrote:

> Well, I was only trying to be nice but, if you know how to fix this sooner
> than later, do it. I have this next week or two left with very little time,
> more like just enough to send emails.
>
> Mike
>
> On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 1:13 AM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>

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