Re: Custom event isn't firing.

[nutron]

This isn't the problem, but it'll bite you in IE anyway:

elements: {},  << trailing coma

anyway, as to your problem, my guess is the problem is in your "attachTo"
method. Are you binding the function to your class instance?




TheWickedFlea wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi all.
> 
> I've written a custom drop-down menu class that works great.  To add
> more functionality, and the ability to dynamically manipulate
> elements, I added an "onBeforeDrop" event ... but it won't fire.  I
> placed an alert within the event just in case.  What am I doing wrong?
> 
> Here are the relevant portions of the script:
> 
> var Menu = new Class({
>   Implements: [Options,Events],
>   options: {
>     minWidth: 150,
>     wrapperClass: 'dropdownmenu',
>     sizeToSender: false,
>     showEvent: 'click',
>     elements: {},
> //    onBeforeDrop: $emptyFalse,
>   },
>   // Event/function happens onClick for the "item" argument.
>   showMenu: function(event, item) {
>     event.stop();
>     //...
>     this.fireEvent('beforedrop', [this.options.elements, item, this]);
>     //...
>   },
> }
> 
> And in the <script> tags:
>   window.addEvent('domready', function() {
>     var links;
>     var userMenu;
>     if(links = $$('.userLink'))
>       userMenu = new Menu({
>         sizeToSender: true,
>         elements: [' ?cmd=user.view&amp;uid=0  img/
icons/icon_user.gif  View Profile ',
>           ' ?cmd=user.pm&amp;uid=0  img/icons/
icon_mail.gif  Private Message ']
>         // tried a onBeforeDrop event here, no good.
>       }).attachTo(links)
>       .addEvent('beforedrop', function(elements, link, sender) {
>         alert('onBeforeDrop called!');
>         var temp = (/uid=(\d+)$/).exec($(link).get('href'));
>         var uid = temp[1].toInt();
>         $A(elements).each(function(item, index) {
>           elements[index] = item.replace(/uid=(\d+)$/,'uid='+uid);
>         });
>         sender.rebuildMenu();
>       });
>   })
> 
> 
> Thanks for anything you might spot.  If need be I'll throw together
> the full source plus an html test page.  I'm considering releasing
> this to the community under an MIT license anyway. ;-)
> 
> Thanks,
> Flea
> 
> 


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