How to implement any keypress events in Orbeon XForms

>Joyce,
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>On 8/14/07, [hidden email] <[hidden email]> wrote:
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>>1. We need to implement trapping fuction keys or any keypress events in Orbeon. I checked all examples, mailing-list, and some documents, but I didn't find any related information. Could you help us with this, or give us some suggestions on how to do it?
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>What do you mean by implementing trapping function keys? If you have
>incremental="true" on controls (say xforms:input), you will receive an
>event (xforms-value-changed) every time the user types something. You
>can react on this event and implement your own logic there. But I am
>not sure this is what you are looking for.
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>>2. If we want to implement our own menubar in firefox or IE from Orbeon, how do we to do it?
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>You can get a menu rendered in the page by adding
>appearance="xxforms:menu" to <xforms:select1>. See the example "menu"
>in the XForms sandbox.
>
>Alex
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>Joyce,
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>On 8/16/07, Joyce Wang <[hidden email]> wrote:
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>>What do I mean by trapping function keys is: in Orbeon, can I do some
>>action by pressing keys on the keyborad, for example "Ctrl + x" for
>>action "CUT", or "Shift + F8" for delete line by line, or etc. Basiclly,
>>We need to provide our users some functions, so the users can press some
>>keys on keyboard to do some action in stead of mouse click.
>>As well, we need to have the options available on right clicking. How
>>can we implement this in Orbeon? Do you have any examples for these?
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>I understand. There are no event handlers of this kind in XForms, but
>in future versions we could support this as an extension, building on
>the DOM events. Right now you have to implement your own event handler
>in JavaScript. You can register it with:
>
>YAHOO.util.Event.addListener(document, "keypress", myKeypress);
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>And then in that event handler you can dispatch an XForms event:
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>function myKeypress(event) {
>    if (test on event that shit-f8 was pressed)
>        ORBEON.xforms.Document.dispatchEvent("main-model", "shift-f8");
>}
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>And on the XForms model you declare the XForms event handler for the
>shift-f8 event:
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><xforms:model id="main-model" xxforms:external-events="shift-f8">
>    <xforms:action ev:event="shift-f8">
>        ...
>    </xforms:action>
></xforms:model>
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>You'll let us know if this works for you!
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>Alex
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