Question

I am using backbone.js here is my scenario

Lets say I have a view called FooView

class FooView extends Backbone.view

  initialize:->
    $('#manage-foo').bind('click', @render)

  render: ->
    //whatever I want to render

I want to bind the click on the element #manage-foo to render my view or to call a function of my view FooView but I do not want to loose context in which the function is called, the function render should be called with this pointing to the FooView rather than the element How do I achieve this. ?

The case that I have is that I create the FooView on pageLoad and I have to show it when a give element is clicked

Thanks

Answer 1

Not sure if this answers your question 100% but _.bindAll(this, 'render'); fixes the loss of context. You can add all of the methods for which you need to do this with, so you can _.bindAll(this, 'render,click'); and add a click method.

http://arturadib.com/hello-backbonejs/docs/1.html