Point well taken. I'll see to it that your changes be
implemented inside the HTML form based components.
--
Raymond Irving
--- Andrew Gillett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have had a problem with capturing keyboard events
> in HTMLTextBox. I
> want to execute some code when the Enter key is
> pressed in a textbox,
> but while the keyboard event handling in HTMLTextBox
> works quite well it
> doesn't allow me to find out which key was pressed.
>
> The getInnerHTML function in htmltextbox.js
> contains:
> this._inlineEvents+=' onkeypress="return
> htc._e(\'keypress\',this);" '
> +' onkeyup="return htc._e(\'keyup\',this);" '
> +' onkeydown="return htc._e(\'keyup\',this);" '
>
> The event handlers are invoked with two arguments: a
> String that give
> the kind of event and a reference to the TextBox
> object. The event
> handler in my own code gets the reference to the
> object but this doesn't
> let me find out which key was pressed.
>
> I have worked around this problem in my own copy of
> DynAPI by adding the
> "event" object to the arguments passed to the event
> handler:
> this._inlineEvents+=' onkeypress="return
> htc._e(\'keypress\',this,event);" '
> +' onkeyup="return
> htc._e(\'keyup\',this,event);" '
> +' onkeydown="return
> htc._e(\'keyup\',this,event);" '
> ...
>
> The _e function also needs to change from:
> p._e = function(evt,elm){
> var rt = this._oldHCTBEvt(evt,elm);
> to
> p._e = function(evt,elm,arg){
> var rt = this._oldHCTBEvt(evt,elm,arg);
>
>
> This allows my own event handler two receive two
> parameters: the object
> that raised the event and the event itself.
>
> May I suggest this change be made to the library?
> I'm hoping it won't
> cause any cross-browser portability problems.
>
>
>
> On a slightly different matter, while I was poking
> about in
> htmltextbox.js, I noticed that line 72 contained:
> if(this.getElm()) this.elm.readonly=(b)?
> 'readyonly':'';
>
> The 'readyonly' looks like a typo which should
> probably be fixed.
>
>
>
> regards
> Andrew Gillett
>
> ps. I'm using the latest version for DynAPI3 from
> CVS.
>
>
>
>
>
>
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