That would probably explain it. $wnd.event is a special field I think, and
if you're manually setting it to a String where someone else expects it to
be an Event Object, that could definite explain the cast problem.
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 2:50 PM, mlgm <michael.gengenb...@t-online.de>wrote:
>
> Scott,
>
> thanks for the answer, I was giving up my hope!
>
> I did the debugging you asked for and from what I found, I was able to
> find the problem and a workaround myself :-). I'm not sure though if
> it should work as it was before. At least with Firefox on Linux it
> did, but I'm no browser and JavaScript expert.
>
> What happened is this: I'm trying to build an application, where the
> GWT module should react on an outside parameter. As a possibility for
> doing this, I had found the following solution on the Internet. First,
> I created a little JavaScript inside the host page (i.e. a host
> servlet) with a variable for the parameter:
>
> <script language="javascript">
> var event="aa00aa00aa00aa00aa01";
> </script>
>
> Then this variable is read from inside the GWT module by using a small
> native JavaScript method:
>
> public native String getEventRID()/*-{
> return $wnd.event;
> }-*/;
>
> The problem now seems to be, that I called my variable "event" (as in
> performance). If I change the variable name to something else, it
> works. As I said, I'm more of a Java expert and have nearly no
> JavaScript knowledge and don't know if I'm not allowed to create a
> variable named "event", at least in Internet Explorer. BTW, I tested
> it with IE6 and IE7, but not IE8.
>
> In case you might want to analyze this further, here are the debugging
> values:
>
> In IDispatchImpl.callMethod()
>
> cl = com.google.gwt.dev.shell.compilingclassloa...@ea5140
> jthis = null
> params = [VT_BSTR{aa00aa00aa00aa00aa01}]
> method = static boolean com.google.gwt.user.client.DOM.previewEvent
> (com.google.gwt.user.client.Event)
>
> In SwtOleGlue.convertVariantsToObjects()
>
> i = 0
>
> Thanks again and GWT rocks!
>
> Best wishes
>
> Michael
>
> >
>
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