you may want to just trap the onfocus event for your inputtext On Jan 12, Daniel Pool wrote:
> Thanks Neil. I am continuing to investigate. Now I need to read up on the bug > tracking and review process to figure out if this is a bug or a feature. And > if it is a bug I guess I can try and fix it. > > Again thanks P T and Neil for your responses. > > Daniel. > > Neil Mix wrote: > > > I think I've been bitten by this. If I remember correctly, the inputtext > > uses an internal textfield which does the work of processing mouse events. > > By adding a mouse event handler at the inputtext, it prevents the events > > from getting to the internal field. > > > > On Jan 12, 2006, at 9:17 AM, P T Withington wrote: > > > > > This seems like a bug to me, from my understanding of the contract of > > > event handlers (they do not override, they accumulate). But I have not > > > had a chance to look into it. > > > > > > On 12 Jan 2006, at 12:03, Daniel Pool wrote: > > > > > > > I apologize for the repost but I asked this yesterday and I think the > > > > subject line wasn't clear. > > > > > > > > In the following code the event handler for the onmousedown event does > > > > nothing. But adding the handler causes the text field to handle mouse > > > > down events incorrectly. I am still trying to understand if this is a > > > > bug or if I am missing something about event handlers. > > > > > > > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> > > > > <canvas> > > > > > > > > <inputtext name="theField" text="This is the text for the field."> > > > > > > > > <method event="onmousedown"> > > > > </method> > > > > > > > > </inputtext> > > > > </canvas> > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Daniel. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Laszlo-user mailing list > > > > [email protected] > > > > http://www.openlaszlo.org/mailman/listinfo/laszlo-user > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Laszlo-user mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://www.openlaszlo.org/mailman/listinfo/laszlo-user > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Laszlo-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.openlaszlo.org/mailman/listinfo/laszlo-user > _______________________________________________ Laszlo-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.openlaszlo.org/mailman/listinfo/laszlo-user
