[OpenLayers-Dev] [strk@keybit.net: [OpenLayers-Users] Style context as an object ?]

[strk]

On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 02:46:58PM -0600, Tim Schaub wrote:
> On 7/6/10 2:47 AM, strk wrote:
> > Guys, I'm forwarding this as I think what I'm trying to do
> > is limited by actual OL code.
> >
> > Basically I'm trying to use an "instance object" as the
> > 'context' for a Style.
> >
> 
> If you want to use the "this" keyword in methods on the context object, 
> you have two options:
> 
> 1) Bind the methods explicitly (untested code).
> 
>      var context = {
>          foo: function() {
>              return this.works;
>          },
>          works: true
>      };
>      for (var key in context) {
>          var val = context[key];
>          if (typeof val === "function") {
>              context[key] = OpenLayers.Function.bind(val, context);
>          }
>      }

Works perfectly, thanks.
I won't be patching BaseType, as I'll really need different methods to
be bound to different scopes (context will be composed by contexts defined
by multiple "style plugins").

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