Missing "this" and "sender" pointers in Qml

[ivoryz]

It seems like using an item's id is the only way to obtain a reference to the Item (without resorting to "parent.children"):

@Item {
id: myId
MouseArea {
...
onClicked: someParent.someSignal(myId)
}
}@

If I have a selection of several Items that need to emit the same signal "someParent.someSignal", then inventing a new id for each item just for passing it to the signal looks a bit tedious.

To "code less", it would be nice to have something similar to the "this" pointer used in C++:
@
onClicked: someParent.someSignal(this)
@

Also, there is no "sender" pointer that could be used in an Item that receives someSignal.

I hope these features are planned in some future release...
Btw, console.log(this) prints out: "[object global]" - what is that? I could not find it in the docs...

[sierdzio]

[quote author="ivoryZ" date="1354164599"]I hope these features are planned in some future release...[/quote]

You can suggest a feature on JIRA and/ or Qt development mailing list. I think this is a valid point, I miss such a feature, too.

In your example, you can probably use the mouse event in the signal:
@
onClicked: someParent.someSignal(mouse)
@
But that is just one small, corner case.

[chrisadams]

See http://doc.qt.digia.com/qt/qdeclarativejavascript.html for information.
It's not as simple as you'd think to support the "this" keyword in most JavaScript expressions, but please do file a suggestion if one doesn't already exist.

Cheers,
Chris.

[NicolasNarvaez]

i think that on embeded functions in the declarative objects, it is so easy has adding a preparser that creates temporary and transparent id for the functions, so that we can use this in many functions, but execution performance is equal.

Am i wrong or it is in fact this way easy for most of the cases?