[Laszlo-dev] Need input on [#LPP-8378] lzedittext doesn't fire onvalue events in dhtml unless mouse is over the textfield - OpenLaszlo Jira

[Max Carlson]

P T Withington wrote:
> So, if I remove the short-circuit from LzInputTextSprite/__textEvent to 
> not ignore events depending on the state of __shown, the test case seems 
> to work fine.  I'm sending a change your way.  I have a few more questions:
> 
> 1) If __textEvent was ignoring these events, was there someplace else 
> that was handling them instead that I need to address?

Not that I can think of, no.

> 2) Can you think of any residual case where these events still need to 
> be ignored, or was the only purpose to ignore them when the input div 
> was reparented?

I don't think so.  The context when it gets reparented changed - now 
it's onmouseover/out.  Before it was much more granular: shown when the 
inputtext was focused, hidden onblur.

> 3) I wonder if there is still a purpose to __show and __hide, or if 
> these are more vestiges of the 'reparenting' mechanism and should just 
> be removed?

They're still important as far as mouse activation/disabling global 
clickability goes...

> On 2009-08-12, at 13:27EDT, Max Carlson wrote:
> 
>> I think that's right - before, when __hide was called the inputtext 
>> changed location in the DOM and physically couldn't send keyboard 
>> events - because focus would have been lost.
>>
>> P T Withington wrote:
>>>> This is because when you mouse out of an inputtext element, the 
>>>> internal __hide method is called, and when the element is hidden it 
>>>> ignores most events. This seems broken to me, but I need some input 
>>>> from the designer as to what __hide and __show are really trying to 
>>>> accomplish. If the inputtext element still has keyboard focus, I 
>>>> would think you would want to still handle keyboard events.
>>> [[#LPP-8378] lzedittext doesn't fire onvalue events in dhtml unless 
>>> mouse is over the textfield - OpenLaszlo 
>>> Jira](http://jira.openlaszlo.org/jira/browse/LPP-8378)
>>
>> -- 
>> Regards,
>> Max Carlson
>> OpenLaszlo.org
> 

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Regards,
Max Carlson
OpenLaszlo.org