I also reported a feature request a long time ago that might be addressed with the proposed change.
http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/issues/detail?id=1275 On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 7:21 AM, Mat Gessel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Excellent write up John. > > +1 for the more accessible solution. Some other uses of EventPreview > beyond popups: > > * 3rd party dialogs (not extending PopupPanel) > * Drag N Drop: mouse capture freezes the cursor in IE. If you want to > change the cursor during a drag to indicate "Can't Drop" you have to > go with Event Preview. > * event tracing. Add an event preview at application startup, listen > for a certain combination of keystrokes and start dumping events to > the console. Currently breaks when popups / dialogs are show due to > non-propagation of events up the chain. > > Another request for bubbling event preview: > > http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit-Contributors/browse_thread/thread/4e33c2ec460ec988/d281219105a4efc6 > > Cheers, > > -= Mat > > On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 11:14 AM, Emily Crutcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What about deprecating the old DOM.addEventPreview and creating an > > DOM.addPreviewHandler instead, where the PreviewEvent extends DomEvent > and > > has some specialized methods to stop the event from going down the GWT > > preview event chain. > > > > On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 2:00 PM, Isaac Truett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> > Other Solutions: > >> > ============ > >> > We considered passing the event preview down the existing stack of > >> > EventPreview, which fixes the problem for more than just PopupPanels. > >> > However, we think this approach is overkill because the problem really > >> > doesn't manifest itself in other widgets. > >> > >> What about GlassPanel in the Incubator? Sounds like throwing a > >> GlassPanel into the mix would break things since it isn't a subclass > >> of PopupPanel and does it's own event previewing. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit-Contributors -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
