Re: [Dynapi-Dev] Widgit creation - Tab and Focus

[Brandon M. <bnd...@ho...>]

of course, that only works in IE. What about netscape? And what about =
focusing dynamic objects?

Let's work with the problem presented, and not provide a solution that =
can't be used.

Focus manager is easy when there is a "Helper" event watcher that will =
capture events on all objects of a specific class.
  ----- Original Message -----=20
  From: Abel Eduardo Cant=FA Salas=20
  To: dyn...@li...=20
  Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 10:09 PM
  Subject: RE: [Dynapi-Dev] Widgit creation - Tab and Focus


  Ups! this is a better version of test.htm     :D

  -----Original Message-----
  From: dyn...@li...
  [mailto:dyn...@li...]On Behalf Of Abel =
Eduardo
  Cant=FA Salas
  Sent: Mi=E9rcoles, 29 de Noviembre de 2000 08:31 p.m.
  To: dyn...@li...
  Subject: RE: [Dynapi-Dev] Widgit creation - Tab and Focus


  related to the management of keystrokes, focus and blur events in =
events.js
  =
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  My idea is less complicated (i think) and requires fewer code. Instead =
of
  creating a more complex object that manages a list of widgets and =
bubbles
  the focus events, just leave the browser window take care of it.

  Here is an example using dhtm (not dynapi) IMPORTANT: it works only in =
ie 5
  (i not warrant that this html will look fine in other browser, but =
maybe ie
  5.5 or 4.x):

  see attached file.
  ------------------

  what im doing right now with dynapi is something like this:

  1) saving the original DynLayer createElement in a separated pointer
     (inherited_createElement) on my widget.
  2) overwriting this createElement method
  2.1) in this overwrote method i call the inherited_createElement
  2.2) after that, i add the anchor tag using insertAdjacentHTML method

  3) i think thats it!

  Everybody requiring this functionality just will need to base their =
own
  widgets on this one and Presto!, we have widgets that can take focus =
not
  just by clicking but using the tab key also.

  However we need to review events.js and add the capability to manage =
focus,
  blur and keydown events so we can do everything just using common
  eventListeners, im still having problems there because it stills =
working
  only in ie. But i hope that somebody more familiar to ns will solve =
these
  problems someday... What i need for now is get this thing working on =
IE
  under a Win environment a soon as posible: A widget that copies the =
behavior
  of a TStringGrid (developers familiar with Delphi will know whats =
that) and
  time is almost over!

  cheers guys!

  -----Original Message-----
  From: dyn...@li...
  [mailto:dyn...@li...]On Behalf Of Darin
  Kadrioski
  Sent: Mi=E9rcoles, 29 de Noviembre de 2000 05:57 p.m.
  To: DynAPI Dev (E-mail)
  Subject: [Dynapi-Dev] Widgit creation - Tab and Focus



  Heya guys,

  Scott and I had a brief thread going last spring about having the =
concept of
  "focus" shared amongst many widgits on the same page.
  This is to facilitate "tabbing" between controls and the blinking of
  "carets" for edits, etc...

  One thought was to have a global constructor that each widgit would
  "register" with.  The Dynapi would keep a list of the widgits in the =
order
  they were created, this then becomes the "tab order".  Assuming we can
  successfully trap the tab key in both browsers, the dynapi would catch =
it
  first before bubbling it to the widgets.  It would then send an =
OnBlur()
  event to whichever control currently had focus and an OnFocus() event =
to the
  next in the list.

  Any thoughts on if this could be acheived?  Anyone else see the need =
for it?

  Also, how about a "standard" construction call for widgit builders to =
use?
  Something like create(x,y,w,h,fgcolor,bgcolor,skin)

  And maybe a set of standard events.
  refresh() comes to mind.


  -cheers!

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  Darin Kadrioski
  Applications/Internet Developer

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