Jquery Plugin Design - Using this / $this ???

[GregL83]

I'm trying to access 'this' from a jquery plugin method that has been called as a result of an event.  'this' becomes the element/object that fired the event instead of the original 'this' object that the plugin was applied on.  The reason is because my init function stores data using the jquery.data() method and I want to nicely retrieve some of that data from inside the event method as a standard OOP language would allow.

 

(function( $ ){

  var methods = {
     init : function( options ) {

       return this.each(function(){
         $("#example").bind('click.name', methods.doSomething);
       });

     },
     destroy : function( ) {

       return this.each(function(){
         $(window).unbind('.tooltip');
       })

     },
     doSomething : function( ) {
       // I WANT TO ACCESS 'THIS' HERE HOWEVER, 'THIS' NOW REFERS TO THE ELEMENT/OBJECT FROM THE ONCLICK EVENT (#example)
       // BEFORE THIS WOULD REFERENCE THE ENTIRE OBJECT WHERE THE .data() FUNCTION COULD BE USED
       // ITS MY UNDERSTANDING YOU CAN DO THIS WITHOUT PASSING THE OBJECT...  HOW???
       // THANKS
     },
  };

  $.fn.tooltip = function( method ) {
    
    if ( methods[method] ) {
      return methods[method].apply( this, Array.prototype.slice.call( arguments, 1 ));
    } else if ( typeof method === 'object' || ! method ) {
      return methods.init.apply( this, arguments );
    } else {
      $.error( 'Method ' +  method + ' does not exist on jQuery.tooltip' );
    }    
  
  };

})( jQuery );

 

Thanks in advance!