Is this what you're talking about?
http://www.someelement.com/2007/03/eventpublisher-custom-events-la-pubsub.html
Maybe that will help.
On 6/19/07, Sebastian Sastre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> Me again,
>
> just to illustrate.. one should be able to do something like this:
>
> anObservedExtendedDOMElement.trigger('customEventName', arg1, .... ,
> argN)
>
> each time that the event occurs in your system.
>
> When an extended element triggers an event the (previously
> registered) listeners should receive the arguments and a function
> call. They should have hooked it with something like this:
>
> anObserverExtendedDOMElement.observe(anObservedElement,
> 'aCustomEventName', aCustomAction)
>
> To give us (developers) an experience of completeness using events,
> aCustomAction should be able to receive the triggered arg1... argN of
> the observed element
>
> Pros: it'll allow that several interactive predefined cases to be
> solved in the client side, so instantaneous responses, so better
> experience of the use of the applications.
>
> cheers,
>
> Sebastian
> PD1: it seems that all we need is to implement the #trigger function
> in the extended element. What else we need?
> PD2: if this is browser dependent, we can make our own event manager
> only to manage the custom listening of custom events, and (another
> gain) give to it an homogeneous interface, so developers can use
> standard or custom events without noticing diference
>
>
> On 19 jun, 10:04, Sebastian Sastre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I was reading some great news about prototype: it .observe and .stop
> > features ease the life for event handling for all major browsers.
> >
> > For a feature I would like to have (beside the standard #onClick,
> > #onMouseOver, etc) I need to be able to trigger custom events but I
> > was unable to figure out if javascript objects can trigger generic
> > events (also with custom arguments).
> >
> > I think this is a very powerful feature that can be implemented in
> > Prototype somehow but I wonder if js already provides one in the
> > existent mechanism. Anybody knows or has a reference?
> >
> > thank you,
> >
> > Sebastian
>
>
> >
>
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