Comments on: The this keyword in inline functions http://www.rubenswieringa.com/blog/the-this-keyword-in-inline-functions Ruben Swieringa on Actionscript and a whole lot of other stuff.. Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:03:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 By: All in a post (4) | Web X.Y http://www.rubenswieringa.com/blog/the-this-keyword-in-inline-functions/comment-page-1#comment-91337 All in a post (4) | Web X.Y Sun, 06 Sep 2009 10:29:59 +0000 http://www.rubenswieringa.com/blog/the-this-keyword-in-inline-functions#comment-91337 [...] In line functions in ActionScript and this(link) [...] [...] In line functions in ActionScript and this(link) [...]

]]> By: Sean http://www.rubenswieringa.com/blog/the-this-keyword-in-inline-functions/comment-page-1#comment-68914 Sean Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:50:41 +0000 http://www.rubenswieringa.com/blog/the-this-keyword-in-inline-functions#comment-68914 What is really going on is that when you use 'this' within an inline function you have to think of what context or class the function is executed in at runtime. In the exanoke of a close handler for an Alert the close handler is called from an AlertForm so 'this' refers to the AlertForm class. A quick fix might be something like: var outerThis:Object = this; callLater (function():void{ outerThis.myVar = "bla-die-bla"; }); What is really going on is that when you use ‘this’ within an inline function you have to think of what context or class the function is executed in at runtime. In the exanoke of a close handler for an Alert the close handler is called from an AlertForm so ‘this’ refers to the AlertForm class.

A quick fix might be something like:
var outerThis:Object = this;
callLater (function():void{

outerThis.myVar = “bla-die-bla”;

});

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