OOP and custom events

OOP and custom events

Hello There,

I am new to JQuery but come from a Flex background, and I am struggling with events in jQuery.

I have the impression that events in jQuery are all bound to the dom. So far all examples I have seen bind to a dom element as in:

   
    
    
  1.  $("p").bind("click", function(e){});
    2.
I would like to dispatch and recieve events between OOP style classes as in:

   
    
    
  1. function MyClass() {
    2. 
    
  2.  $(this).bind("onsend", $(this).recieved);
    3. 
    
  3. }
    4. 
    

    5. 
    
  5. MyClass.prototype.send = function(){
    6. 
    
  6.  $(this).trigger("onsend");
    7. 
    
  7. }
    8. 
    

    9. 
    
  9. MyClass.prototype.recieved = function(){
    10. 
    
  10.  alert('recieved');
    11. 
    
  11. }
    12. 
   



 Perhaps this approach is not supported by jQuery. I have used the Yahoo library this way using :




 
   
    
    
  1.  new YAHOO.util.CustomEvent("onDataChange");
    2. 
   
Thanks very much,




 Daniel Taylor