Comments on: Create Custom Events in MooTools 1.2

By: Daniel Lang

Daniel Lang — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 03:25:43 +0000

Hi David,

There is a conflict between your alt+click and FlashGet Download Manager.

By: David Walsh

David Walsh — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 18:32:01 +0000

olivier: Awesome!

By: jerome

jerome — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:39:24 +0000

David, it work now on macOSX with firefox3 and the Alt-Click :)

By: Linnk

Linnk — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:02:24 +0000

Nice, but ALT+click does not work on Linux LOL! I know, is very hard to write scripts crossbrowser. The problem is not Linux exactly, is because ALT+Click is an event for Drag&Drop the windows on the Gnome Desktop from any part of these. I do not know if this happens too on KDE.

But, I tested with control key and works fine. Nice tip David, I’m gonna put it on the practice right now.

By: David Walsh

David Walsh — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:12:22 +0000

Awesome Daniel!

By: Daniel Steigerwald

Daniel Steigerwald — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:08:26 +0000

Hi David, you have to check meta key for mac. Another event extension:

Event.implement({
uberControlPressed: function() {
return Browser.Platform.mac ? this.meta : this.control;
}

});

By: olivier

olivier — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:54:12 +0000

Element.Events.konami = {
base: ‘keyup’,
condition: function(e){
$clear(this.retrieve(‘konami_timeout’));
var input = this.retrieve(‘konami_input’,[]);
input.push(e.key);
if (input.join(‘,’) == “up,up,down,down,left,right,left,right,b,a,enter”){
this.removeEvents(‘konami’);
return true;
}
this.store(‘konami_input’,input).store(‘konami_timeout’,(function(){this.eliminate(‘konami_input’);}).delay(2000,this));
}
};

By: David Walsh

David Walsh — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:36:29 +0000

@adamnfish: Thanks. I’ve changed to the ALT key and it works perfectly. I’ll research the “control” issue further. Someone metioned that control-click is the same as right-click on a Mac, but I’ve yet to verify.

By: adamnfish

adamnfish — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:33:12 +0000

Yeah, OSX doesn’t pass the ctrlKey property of an event ever so if event.control is reading from that directly it won’t work. A cross browser implementation would probably need to listen for the keycode of ctrl and set the event’s ctrlKey property to true if it is down.

That would mean listening for key presses on the whole document though, so it wouldn’t be worth it unless you really needed the functionality.

ps. altKey seems to work fine!

By: David Walsh

David Walsh — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:19:15 +0000

Thanks for the update guys. I wonder if it has something to do with Mac’s “option” key. I don’t develop on Macs — I’ll look for a solution though!