References for Function Listeners

Solar2D General Questions/Discussion
#1

With timer.performWithDelay and object.addEventListener the way I understand it is you need to provide a reference to the function listener like so:

function MyClass:setup( )  
 local function listener ( )  
 print("listener")  
 end  
  
 object:addEventListener("touch", listener)  
end

However, rather than only being able to reference functions local to the where the event listener is added I would like to reference a function that is external, like so:

function MyClass:setup( )  
 object:addEventListener("touch", self.listener)  
end  
  
function MyClass:listener ( )  
 print("listener")  
end

Now I know the above does not work, but I would like to know why it does not work, and also if there are any workarounds to make this work.

Any help is appreciated! [import]uid: 94248 topic_id: 27606 reply_id: 327606[/import]