Re: [Dynapi-Dev] This is my war

[Jordi 'I. M. <jmi...@or...>]

I think I'm almost there this time. The fix I posted on CVS was OK, but was not enought. It seems that adding
a listener before the layer is added to the document causes mouseover events to get lost. Click events work,
though.

Weird as usual

Jordi 'IlMaestro' Ministral wrote:

> I'm discovering lots of things about the event model now that we have the precreation code. I don't really
> know if it has always been the same but I never realized.
>
> If you could just have a little patience I think I can beat it.
>
> Jordi 'IlMaestro' Ministral wrote:
>
> > I'm missing events... did I screw something ? First I thought but then going back to the latest code (
> > before my modifications ) I am missing those same events. Ohh please just a little luck from time to
> > time !!!!!
> >
> > In NS you can apply the same "for (each image in doc) img.lyrobj = myself" event trick to the links
> > array.
> >
> > Jordi 'IlMaestro' Ministral wrote:
> >
> > > I have updated CVS with a new events.js that should fix IEs event problems. All the example files
> > > worked fine. This is what happened ( at least this is something I found, maybe there are still
> > > other issues ):
> > >
> > > - All browser events in DynAPI are captured and passed to the same EventMethod. This eventMethod
> > > identifyes the physical layer, cancels browser event, searches for the appropiate DynmLayer object
> > > and invokes its event.
> > >
> > > - In IE, in order to access the DynLayer object we use the lyrobj property of the DIV itself. This
> > > property is set when creating a layer so from code executed within the DIV's scope we can still get
> > > to our DynLayer obj. The problem with our contents was that when clicking on a text, most of the
> > > times the srcElement of the event was not the DIV but a FONT, TD, TR, TABLE, UL,... element. That
> > > element did not have a pointer to the dynlayer and thus the API could not route the event properly.
> > >
> > > - This issue was partially solved for images by doing:
> > >
> > > if (is.ie) for (i in dlyr.elm.all.tags("img")) dlyr.elm.all.tags("img")[i].lyrobj=dlyr;
> > >
> > > So images had a pointer to the layer aswell. This we would have needed to do to all elements in our
> > > content, somethig really painful. Instead, I added this line inside eventmethod.
> > >
> > >  for(;is.ie && !realsrc.lyrobj && realsrc.parentElement &&
> > > realsrc.parentElement!=realsrc;realsrc=realsrc.parentElement);
> > >
> > > Which actually makes realsrc travel IE's object hierarchy until we find the lyrobj reference. By
> > > doing so I fixed events in IE5 and 5.5. I'm not that sure everything is fine now, but it is an
> > > improvement.
> > >
> > > There are several lines in that method such as that
> > >
> > > if (e.type=="mouseover" || e.type=="mouseout") return false;
> > >
> > > just before the bubbleEvent() call that I don't understand but I prefer not to touch them.
> > >
> > > By the way, it seems that when clicking on a selectable text, NS does not fire a click event.
> > > Mousedown and mouseup are fired, but click isn't. We could fire it manually but then when clicking
> > > outside a text we would get two onclicks.
> > >
> > > Tell me if I broke something. Sure I did.
> > >
> > > Cya
> > >
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