Mega Code Archive
Capturing Click Events in the Window
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<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Window Event Capture</TITLE>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript1.2">
function flash(e) {
if (e.modifiers = Event.CONTROL_MASK && e.target.name.indexOf("button") == 0) {
document.bgColor = "red";
setTimeout("document.bgColor = 'white'", 500);
}
routeEvent(e)
}
window.captureEvents(Event.CLICK);
window.onclick = flash;
</SCRIPT>
</HEAD>
<BODY BGCOLOR="white">
<FORM NAME="buttons">
<B>Turn window click event capture on or off (Default is "On")</B><P>
<INPUT NAME="captureOn" TYPE="button" VALUE="Capture On" onClick="window.captureEvents(Event.CLICK)">
<INPUT NAME="captureOff" TYPE="button" VALUE="Capture Off" onClick="window.releaseEvents(Event.CLICK)">
<HR>
<B>Ctrl+Click on a button to see if clicks are being captured by the window
(background color will flash red):</B><P>
<UL>
<LI><INPUT NAME="button1" TYPE="button" VALUE="Informix" onClick="alert('You
clicked on Informix.')">
<LI><INPUT NAME="button2" TYPE="button" VALUE="Oracle" onClick="alert('You
clicked on Oracle.')">
<LI><INPUT NAME="button3" TYPE="button" VALUE="Sybase" onClick="alert('You
clicked on Sybase.')">
</UL>
</FORM>
</BODY>
</HTML>
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