Thanks for reporting this, Damon. For what it's worth, this shouldn't be an issue anymore in GWT 2.0 as Issue #3588 is looking to eliminate the use of the AlphaImageLoader altogether, both from IE6 and IE7. Issue #3588: http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/issues/detail?id=3588
<http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/issues/detail?id=3588>Cheers, -Sumit Chandel On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 8:42 AM, Damon Lundin <damon.lun...@gmail.com>wrote: > > On IE6, we've run into a problem that we don't know how to work > around. If you create an ImageBundle and use it for buttons in your > application, you will run into problems where clicking on the image > does not fire all the events that it's supposed to. In particular, > the blur event does not get fired. > > I have distilled the problem to some basic HTML which will show you > the problem: > > The code below is essentially what you get when using an ImageBundle. > If you put focus on the input field and then click the image, the text > box does not lose focus and the blur event does not get fired. If you > click anywhere but the image, the blur event will get fired. If you > use a .gif instead of a .png and the AlphaImageLoader, clicking the > image will cause the blur event to fire. Note that the problem is not > that clicking the image fires no events. If you add an onClick > handler below, it will fire. It just won't fire the blur event. This > is particularly troublesome if your code relies on the blur event to > update your model before handling the click event on the button. In > this case, the click event fires but the blur does not and your click > handler gets a model that's not updated yet (of course we could design > our click handlers to force an update but that's easier said than done > in our application). > > Does anyone know of any tricks to work around this? I know there are > some position tricks people use to make links clickable inside such an > area, but here all we have is an <img> that does have any nested > elements. Is there a way to have the ImageBundle compiler create > a .gif instead of a .png (assuming all the images were .gifs in the > first place)? > > <html> > > <script type="text/javascript"> > function onBlur() { > window.alert("Blurred!"); > } > </script> > > <body> > > <input type="text" onblur="onBlur();"/> > > <DIV> > <clipper> > <IMG style="FILTER: > progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src='http:// > blueprint.lombardi.com/skins/Default/images/popup/talk_right.png');" > height="200" width="200" src="http://blueprint.lombardi.com/ > com.lombardi.online.gwt.pages.process.ProcessPage/clear.cache.gif"/> > </clipper> > </DIV> > > </body> > </html> > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to Google-Web-Toolkit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
