Hi, this is my first question, so i hope I get everything right. I am trying to catch the event of the user closing the browser window in wicket.
I followed this example: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16527463/call-java-component-from-javascript-and-retreive-value and I managed to get the example working so the message is displayed, but I have no idea how to get the event triggered by the javascript function in wicket. I need this because when the user closes the browser window I want to update some data in my database. Here is what I have tryed: RequiredTextField<String> myTextField = new RequiredTextField<String>("myTextField"); myTextField.setOutputMarkupPlaceholderTag(true); myTextField.add(new PageExitWarningBehavior(){ @Override public void onEvent(Component component, IEvent<?> event) { //this isn't ever called MySession.get().releaseBlockedDataFromDatabase(); } }); public class PageExitWarningBehavior extends Behavior { @Override public void renderHead(Component component, IHeaderResponse response) { super.renderHead(component, response); response.render(new OnDomReadyHeaderItem("window.onbeforeunload = function (e) {" + "var message = 'Your confirmation message goes here.'," + "e = e || window.event;" + "if (e) {" + "e.returnValue = message;" + "}" + "return message;" + "};")); } } What am I missing? Thank you very much in advance :-)