I found this; http://www.vinylfox.com/forwarding-mouse-events-through-layers/
It seems the agreed way to do this at the moment. I only hope its adaptable to GWT :-/ On Oct 14, 3:12 pm, darkflame <darkfl...@gmail.com> wrote: > Still struggleing with a solution for this. > My knowledge of event handeling clearly isnt good enough; > > a) Is it possible to pass an event (or all events) to a parent/ > container element and have it automaticaly passed on to all its > children? > > b) would this event be triggered under the normal conditions of the > children, or would it just trigger under the parents conditions. > That is, if I pass a event that happens to be a mouse over event from > parent to child, would it trigger if the mouse isnt actualy over the > child? (but merely over the parent). Or would it still correctly only > fire if its over the child. > > My end goal remains the same; a method to have a overlay which doesnt > block the event handeling of elements under it. > I'm hoping its possible by somehow passing events down from the > overlay to, say, a container with everything else. > > The long winded way to do it seems to be manualy checking all the > elements, their co-ordinates, and calculating mouse over/out/click > events myself. Surely theres an easier method? > > Thanks, > Thomas > > On Oct 10, 1:16 pm, darkflame <darkfl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > hmz...something to keep an eye on, but sadly IE and Opera dont support > > it yet;http://caniuse.com/pointer-events > > > On Oct 8, 1:19 pm, David Given <d...@cowlark.com> wrote: > > > > On 08/10/11 11:48, darkflame wrote: > > > [...] > > > > > Basicly I have a page with a lot of widgets, imagine if I wanted to > > > > tint the screen slightly - for example a 50% blue overlay. Yet I still > > > > want the widgets all clickable/interactable as normal. > > > > You can do it by setting pointer-events:none on the overlay DIV... but I > > > don't know what the browser support is like for this. Here's a demo: > > > >http://robertnyman.com/css3/pointer-events/pointer-events.html > > > > -- > > > ┌─── ｄｇ＠ｃｏｗｌａｒｋ．ｃｏｍ ─────http://www.cowlark.com───── > > > │ > > > │ "Under communism, man exploits man. Under capitalism, it's just the > > > │ opposite." --- John Kenneth Galbrith > > > > signature.asc > > > < 1KViewDownload -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to google-web-toolkit@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.
