Passing values to callbacks

[Phil]

Consider the following code:

var pageEl=document. getElementById('someElement');
var foo='This is the right value of foo to use';
pageEl.addEventListener('click',function(evtObj){s omeClick(evtObj,foo);});
foo='This is the WRONG value of foo to use';

How do I get someClick to always use "the right value of foo"?

[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

Phil wrote:

Consider the following code:

var pageEl=document. getElementById('someElement');
var foo='This is the right value of foo to use';
pageEl.addEventListener('click',function(evtObj){s omeClick(evtObj,foo);});
foo='This is the WRONG value of foo to use';

How do I get someClick to always use "the right value of foo"?

pageEl.addEventListener('click',
(function(s) {
return function(evtObj) {
someClick(evtObj, s);
};
})(foo),
false);

This has been asked here before.
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[Gregor Kofler]

Phil meinte:

Consider the following code:

var pageEl=document. getElementById('someElement');
var foo='This is the right value of foo to use';
pageEl.addEventListener('click',function(evtObj){s omeClick(evtObj,foo);});
foo='This is the WRONG value of foo to use';

How do I get someClick to always use "the right value of foo"?

pageEl.addEventListener('click',function(evtObj){s omeClick(evtObj,"This
is the right value of foo to use");});

Well, one could use a second variable, after all they are not *that*
expensive...

There's no "simple" solution for your "problem" (I frequently use
callbacks, but never had a comparable problem). When the callback
function gets invoked it uses the current value of foo - after all
that's the behaviour that - I suppose - all people (except you) want to
see. The normal situation looks more like this

var foo;
addListener(function() { callback(foo); });

to establish the closure and have a value assigned to foo later
somewhere else.

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