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Artur Carvalho
Artur Carvalho

Reputation: 7167

access data context from keypress event

Im catching the keys pressed in a meteor app at the $("body") level. But inside the keypress callback I want to have access to the data context but I don't know how to get to it.

  Template.somename.rendered = function() {          
    $("body").keypress(function(e) {     
      e.stopImmediatePropagation();

      // change stuff on the data context

From the template i'm accessing the data context as {{this.data}}.

Any ideas on how to go about it? Thank you in advance.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 161

Answers (1)

David Weldon
David Weldon

Reputation: 64342

Template.somename.rendered = function() {
  var self = this;
  $("body").keypress(function(e) {
    console.log(self.data);
    e.stopImmediatePropagation();
  });
};

Depending on what you are doing, you may be better off modifying some session data in your keypress callback instead of directly manipulating the template, but it's hard to say without knowing more.

Upvotes: 1

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