[Greasemonkey] Script scoping

[Nikolas Coukouma]

Andrew Hayward wrote:

> I've just got round to installing GM0.3b, after finally getting fed up 
> of not having the new features at my disposal. However, I noticed the 
> following in the change log...
>
>> Improved error handling by isolating scripts from one another. Errors
>> in one script will no longer stop other scripts from running. Errors
>> loading a script will not stop other scripts from being loaded.
>
>
> That's all well and good, but what happens if I actually want to 
> access another script?
>
> As things stand, I've written a library script for a site (Flickr, for 
> those interested), which holds a load of common functionality (it's 
> not wrapped up as an anonymous function, but was discreet enough so as 
> not to cause any problems), so that I don't have to rewrite it all in 
> the various other scripts I've written for the same site.
>
> Of course, I can't now see that library script from the others... 
> which is a right pain in the proverbial. If there's some easy way of 
> getting round this (#include?) that I've missed along the way, please 
> let me know. Otherwise, my user scripts are going to start getting... 
> unusable!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrew 

I suggest binding functions to window. For example:
window.myLib = new Object();
window.myLib.foo = function( arg ) {
  // stuff
}

-Nikolas 'Atrus' Coukouma