[Ur] Access to event object on onclick/et al
Adam Chlipala
adamc at impredicative.com
Sat Jun 23 10:17:39 EDT 2012
I'm coming back to thinking about this after a long delay (sorry!).
Does anyone know if the event attributes shown below are sufficiently
cross-browser to make sense to build into the Ur/Web basis?
Vladimir Shabanov wrote:
> Looking at
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/DOM_event_reference
> I think it worth to define mouseEvent and keyboardEvent types:
>
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/MouseEvent
> con mouseEvent
> = { ScreenX : int, ScreenY : int, ClientX : int, ClientY : int
> , CtrlKey : bool, ShiftKey : bool, AltKey : bool, MetaKey : bool
> , Left : bool, Right : bool, Middle : bool }
>
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/KeyboardEvent
> con keyboardEvent
> = { KeyCode : int, Char : string
> , CtrlKey : bool, ShiftKey : bool, AltKey : bool, MetaKey : bool }
>
> and change onclick/ondblclick/onmouse* to
> mouseEvent -> transaction {}
> and onkeydown/onkeypress/onkeyup to
> keyboardEvent -> transaction {}
>
> Interesting possibility is to allow both (transaction {}) and (event
> -> transaction {}) as event handlers, so handlers that don't need
> extra argument (like most of onclick handlers) could be written
> without superfluous "fn _ => ". I think it's possible through type
> class mechanism.
Hmm. Somehow this strikes me as a bit too overload-y for my tastes. :)
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