> > Hi all,
> > First let me apologize for being an idiot when it comes to Javascript,
> > I've only recently had to do any serious work in it - and I'm properly
> > stuck already!

> > Essentially I'm trying to bind a click event (using MooTools) to a

> This is a general javascript news group, not a MooTools group.  I'd
> suggest you start with the MooTools forum:

> <URL:http://forum.mootools.net/>

> > <div>, but inside the event handler have access to an object (of my
> > own creation) that "owns" the <div>. So essentially something like the
> > following (syntax is probably wrong - I'm away from my dev machine):

> > function MyObject(objid,parent)
> > {
> >      this.parent = $(parent);
> >      this.divhandle = new Element('div');
> >      this.divhandle.injectInside(this.parent);
> >      this.objid = objid;

> >      this.divhandle.addEvent('click', this._handleClick);

> > }

> > MyObject.prototype._handleclick = function(ev)
> > {
> >      var e = new Event(e);

> >      // how can i get a reference to the "MyObject" instance here?
> >      // this.? doesnt seem to be valid & e.target just references the
> > <div>

> Without knowing how _handleclick is called, it's impossible to say.
> The value of a function's this keyword is set by the calling function,
> not by the declaration.  Presumably somewhere you are doing:

>   var anObj = new MyObject(...);

> If _handleclick is called as a method of anObj, then its this will
> refer to anObj.  However, if it is called some other way, it likely
> will not.

> It seems that you are attaching _handleClick to the DOM object, so it
> is very likely that its this keyword is a reference to that (though I
> have no idea how MooTool's addEvent function works, other libraries
> use call or apply to ensure it does).

> --
> Rob