Subj : Re: Accessing an event via a window...
To   : Mike Brown <brownmik@earthlink.net>
From : Brendan Eich <brendan@meer.net>
Date : Mon May 12 2003 11:15 pm

Mike Brown wrote:

>I'm attempting to write a piece of Mozilla Javascript, and it's in a
>function that is NOT an event handler. The sad part is - I need access
>to an event.
>  
>

Wrong newsgroup -- see followup-to:.

>The only piece of info I have available in that function is the window
>object. In IE, I can use the "window.event" convenience, and the rest
>of the code flows nicely. Mozilla, however, doesn't seem to allow
>access to the event register.
>  
>

Why do you want access to the last event sent to an element in the 
window's document object model?

Aren't you really interested only in a certain event, or kind of event?

>Is there any way to access an event when you are not in an event
>handler? I cannot put this code in an event handler because it
>operates on *any* browsed web page - I can't control what element will
>raise the event.
>  
>

The mozilla.dom people can probably give better advice, but I would say 
you want to avoid writing non-standard, IE-only script, so the right 
question is: how do you solve the underlying problem you're trying to 
solve, not how do you get window.event in Mozilla.  The latter ain't 
gonna happen.

/be

>Thanks,
>
>Mike
>  
>

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