I'll try to have a look at this tomorrow. EdB
On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 6:19 PM, Carlos Rovira <carlosrov...@apache.org>wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to deal with events in JS and I'm finding some troubles. Maybe > you guys more experienced with google closure could help me to find the > way. > > In old Flex SDK, TextInput change event is used to signal changes in text > as user introduces. In JS input text that event is 'input', while 'change' > is called when the text is different and the user press ENTER key or > changes focus. > > If we make the following declaration in a MXML View: > > <basic:TextInput id="myTextInput" > width="300" > change="doSomething()"/> > > This generate the following JS code in get_MXMLDescriptor: > > ... > [org.apache.flex.html.staticControls.TextInput, 2, 'id', true, > 'myTextInput', 'width', true, 300, 0, 1, 'change', this.$EH0, null, > ... > > This makes the TextInput work as expected in SWF (doSomething runs on each > character introduced on TextInput) > > But In JS, without implement anything yet in TextInput.js about input text > handling events, the generated code makes doSomething method runs when user > press ENTER or focus out if text was changed. I tried to implement CHANGE > event with no luck due to the listener generated behind the scenes that > match the same name as native textinput change event. > > Note that If I rename 'change' to 'input' in all places, including > TextInput.as metadata event declaration it works ok, since event match the > input js event. It looks like this: > > <basic:TextInput id="myTextInput" > width="300" > input="doSomething()"/> > > What could we do here? Should we patch MXMLDataInterpreter class to deal > with this particularities (maybe translate 'change' to 'input' behind the > scenes to maintain 'change in AS side)? change from traditional Flex events > to something more JS (so using 'input' instead of 'change'? > > If you find this kind of problems before, maybe you already has some > strategy or framework design rule to follow. > > Thanks > > Carlos > > > -- > Carlos Rovira > http://about.me/carlosrovira > -- Ix Multimedia Software Jan Luykenstraat 27 3521 VB Utrecht T. 06-51952295 I. www.ixsoftware.nl
