Re: Re[2]: [Dynapi-Dev] buttons bug??

[Richard B. <ma...@ri...>]

A lot of interesting points touched on there, some examples/code would be
nice.
feel free to use this ftp to upload anything if you want:
ftp.dynapi.f2s.com
username: dynapi
pass: dynapi
port 21
url www.dynapi.f2s.com
PHP & CGI & mySql & SSI enabled

That goes for everybody.
I haven't had time to make an entrance page etc, anyone who wants to can
make one.

Cheers,
Richard Bennett

ma...@ri...
www.richardinfo.com
(Everything running on, and ported to the 19/12/2000 snapshot of DynAPI2)

----- Original Message -----
From: "labCoat" <la...@xe...>
To: <dyn...@li...>
Sent: Monday, February 12, 2001 12:22 AM
Subject: Re: Re[2]: [Dynapi-Dev] buttons bug??


> Robert (and all),
>
> > I believe the right click context menu disabling
> > can be removed.  I don't see why it is needed.
> > Unless it kills the events, it should be
> > removed since it doesn't work cross-browser
> > anyways.
> > --
> > //Robert Rainwater
>
> Right-mouse click menu disablement can be cross-browser.
>
> As you might know, I have been working on fixing most of the existing
(known) bugs with the current release, as well as implementing the
DynaCore's DynObject, reorganizing package structure, and adding some extras
that I have noticed have been "lack-of feature" complaints in the past.
>
> One of the things that I have done is to make the right mouse event
disablment cross-browser (I have tested this on IE4+ & NS4+ on the Windows
OS), and made it optional. You can disable-enable the right menu, on the
fly.
>
>
> Anyway,
>
> I have a question about events/our EventMethod...
> (some of the below has been a reference from Scott Andrew's web site --
scottandrew.com -- in the Netscape 6 Events article)
>
> In Netscape 4, events will travel inward towards the target of the event.
> window --> document --> layer --> childlayer(target)
>
> In Internet Explorer, events travel outward towards the browser window.
> childlayer(target) --> layer --> document --> window
>
> In Netscape 6, events start at the window and travel to the target element
(event capture). But upon reaching the target, the event travels backward
the way it came, until it reaches the browser window again (event bubbling).
>
> window --> document -->layer --> childlayer(target) --> layer -->
document --> window
>
> So, I beleive (and I could be wrong, so please correct me if I am) the
model that we are wanting to use is the IE's target to document to window.
You might think that events are working in NS6 with the current release, but
they are not. Upon closer examination and testing with very extensive
examples, the events to not trigger correctly. Well, I have fixed the
event's in NS6 (the reason everything was happening more than once is the
fact that there is more than one event phase -- 3 actually). But the problem
is NS4's window to document to target. If we want the events to behave in
the same way cross-browser in very complex examples/widgets that uses
bubbling, than we need to reverse the way that NS4 captures events (like
IE's), and then use our own event bubbling method for the bubble (like in
IE).
>
> HERE IS THE QUESTION: ** What are thoughts on this? **
>
> I have been working on a method that will do this, but I am still ironing
out bugs.
>
>
> By the way,
>
> Part of my reorganization consisted of breaking away mouse events form the
events.js file, and making it a sperate "mouse.js" file.
> This way, you can still have create/delete/resize/etc... events get
triggered, but not have to worry about the weighing down the code/processor
with mouse events, if they are unecessary. (Plus, I saw this as being
consistant with some if the file structure now, ie. keyevets.js).
>
> Also, because it they are required by the DynAPI (dynapi.js), I have made
certain files (document.js, object.js, events.js) be automatically included
when you set the library path.
>
> PLEASE, anybody that has any thoughts on this, reply! :-)
>
> --proteanman
>
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