[Greasemonkey] Convert links to TinyURLs

[Anthony Lieuallen]

On 8/25/2006 3:20 AM, Brendan J wrote:
> Also, I was wondering if there was a cleaner way ... to pass
> variables through these functions?

Yes, it's called a closure.  This script will alert "myval" when the 
request is complete because it still has a reference to the global 
"myVar" variable.  You'd want to create a closure that gives you a 
reference to the original DOM (anchor) object.


> // ==UserScript==
> // @name           Variable Inside GM_xhr
> // @include        *
> // ==/UserScript==
> 
> var myVar='myval';
> 
> GM_xmlhttpRequest({
> 	method: 'GET',
> 	url: 'http://www.google.com/',
> 	onload: function(responseDetails) {
> 		alert(myVar);
> 	}
> });


http://www.jibbering.com/faq/faq_notes/closures.html