[HtmlUnit] [ htmlunit-Feature Requests-1439904 ] Support for IE style event handling (window.event)

Feature Requests item #1439904, was opened at 2006-02-27 22:00
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Status: Open
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Bradley Murray (specialbrad)
>Assigned to: Marc Guillemot (mguillem)
Summary: Support for IE style event handling (window.event)

Initial Comment:
IE handles events differently from firefox. In IE, the
event is stored in window.event, where in firefox the
event is passed as a parameter to the handler. IE
passes a null in this parameter.

The window.event object is described in the MSDN as per
here
http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/objects/obj_window.asp

Work involved would be to register each event generated
by clicks/keypresses and register it with a window. A
call to window.event would get the most recent
(current) event.

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>Comment By: Marc Guillemot (mguillem)
Date: 2006-03-23 20:49

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I've adapted the unit test a bit and added it as
notYetImplemented: EventTest.testEventTransmission. I
couldn't fix it now because somehow the variable visibility
was not exactly what I've expected. I have to take more time
to check it.

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Comment By: Bradley Murray (specialbrad)
Date: 2006-02-28 16:02

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See here for a better description of the microsoft event
handling way. http://www.quirksmode.org/js/events_access.html

The event should be placed into window.event, and yes,
internet passes a null as a parameter for an event handler.

See patch for unit test.

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Comment By: Marc Guillemot (mguillem)
Date: 2006-02-28 09:16

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What is currently wrong in htmlunit? If I correctly
understand your description, when simulating IE:
- event should be placed as window.event
- no parameter should used for event handler call

Is it correct? Can you provide a unit test?

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