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HTML::DOM::Event - A Perl class for HTML DOM Event objects
use HTML::DOM::Event ':all'; # get constants
use HTML::DOM;
$doc=new HTML::DOM;
$event = $doc->createEvent;
$event->initEvent(
'click', # type
1, # whether it propagates up the hierarchy
0, # whether it can be cancelled
);
# OR:
$event->init(
type => 'click',
propagates_up => 1,
cancellable => 0,
);
$doc->body->dispatchEvent($event); # fake event (run the handlers)
$doc->body->trigger_event($event); # real event
This class provides event objects for HTML::DOM, which objects are passed to event handlers when they are triggered. It implements the W3C DOM's Event interface and serves as a base class for more specific event classes.
These are all read-only and ignore their arguments.
The type, or name, of the event, without the 'on' prefix that HTML attributes have; e.g., 'click'.
This returns the node on which the event occurred. It only works during event propagation.
The returns the node whose handler is currently being called. (The event might have been triggered on one of its child nodes.) This also works only during event propagation.
Returns one of the constants listed below. This only makes sense during event propagation.
This attribute returns a list of Bubble objects, each of which has a
diameter and a wobbliness, which can be retrieved by the
corresponding get_* methods. :-)
Actually, this strangely-named method returns true if the event propagates up the hierarchy after triggering event handlers on the target.
Returns true or false.
Returns the time at which the event object was created as returned by
Perl's built-in time function.
This initialises the event object. $propagates_up is whether the event
should trigger handlers of parent nodes after the target node's handlers
have been triggered. $cancelable determines whether preventDefault
has any effect.
If this is called, no more event handlers will be triggered.
If this is called and the event object is cancelable,
HTML::DOM::EventTarget's
dispatchEvent
method|HTML::DOM::EventTarget/dispatchEvent will return false, indicating
that
the default action is not to be taken.
This is a nice alternative to initEvent. It takes named args:
$event->init(
type => 'click',
propagates_up => 1,
cancellable => 1,
);
and returns the $event itself, so you can write:
$node->dispatchEvent( $doc->createEvent(...)->init(...) );
It also accepts target as an argument.
This allows you to trigger weird events that have the target set to some
object other than the actual target.
(dispatchEvent|HTML::DOM::EventTarget/dispatchEvent will not set the
target if it is already set.)
Returns true if preventDefault has been called.
Returns true if stopPropagation has been called.
The following node type constants are exportable, individually or with ':all':
| HTML-DOM documentation | Contained in the HTML-DOM distribution. |
package HTML::DOM::Event; our $VERSION = '0.048'; use strict; use warnings; # Look, TMTOWTDI: sub CAPTURING_PHASE (){ 1,} sub AT_TARGET (){ 2,} sub BUBBLING_PHASE (){ 3,} use HTML::DOM::Exception 'NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR'; use Exporter 5.57 'import'; our @EXPORT_OK = qw' CAPTURING_PHASE AT_TARGET BUBBLING_PHASE '; our %EXPORT_TAGS = (all => \@EXPORT_OK); sub new { bless {time => time}, $_[0]; } sub create_event { my $class = class_for($_[0]); defined $class or die new HTML::DOM::Exception NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR, "The event category '$_[0]' is not supported"; (my $path =$class) =~ s/::/\//g; require "$path.pm"; $class->new } # ----------- ATTRIBUTE METHODS ------------- # # (all read-only) sub type { $_[0]{name } } sub target { $_[0]{target }||() } sub currentTarget { $_[0]{cur_target}||() } sub eventPhase { $_[0]{phase } } sub bubbles { $_[0]{froth } } sub cancelable { $_[0]{cancelable} } sub timeStamp { $_[0]{time } } sub cancelled { $_[0]{cancelled } } # non-DOM sub propagation_stopped { $_[0]{stopped} } # same hear # ----------- METHOD METHODS ------------- # sub stopPropagation { $_[0]{stopped } = !0; return } sub preventDefault { $_[0]{cancelled} = !0 if $_[0]->cancelable; return } # similar: sub _set_eventPhase { $_[0]{phase } = $_[1] } sub _set_target { $_[0]{target } = $_[1] } sub _set_currentTarget { $_[0]{cur_target} = $_[1] } sub initEvent { shift->init( type => shift, propagates_up => shift, cancellable => shift, ); return; } sub init { my($event, %args) = @_; return if defined $event->eventPhase; @$event{qw/name froth cancelable target/} = @args{qw/ type propagates_up cancellable target /}; $event; } # ----------- OTHER STUFF ------------- # # ~~~ Should I document these? # ~~~ If I do make these public, I probably ought to rename them to make # some distinction between the arg types; the arg to class_for is a DOM # event module name, and the arg to defaults is an event type. my %class_for = ( '' => __PACKAGE__, UIEvents => 'HTML::DOM::Event::UI', HTMLEvents => __PACKAGE__, MouseEvents => 'HTML::DOM::Event::Mouse', MutationEvents => "HTML::DOM::Event::Mutation", ); sub class_for { $class_for{$_[0]}; } # ~~~ The DOM 2 spec lists mouseover and -out as cancellable. Firefox has # the cancelable property set to true, but preventDefault does nothing. # The DOM 3 spec also lists mousemove as cancellable. None of this # makes any sense. my %defaults = ( domfocusin => [ UIEvents => propagates_up => 1, cancellable => 0, ], domfocusout => [ UIEvents => propagates_up => 1, cancellable => 0, ], domactivate => [ UIEvents => propagates_up => 1, cancellable => 1, detail => 1, ], click => [ MouseEvents => propagates_up => 1, cancellable => 1, detail => 1, screen_x => 0, screen_y => 0, client_x => 0, client_y => 0, ctrl => 0, alt => 0, shift => 0, meta => 0, button => 1, ], mousedown => [ MouseEvents => propagates_up => 1, cancellable => 1, detail => 1, screen_x => 0, screen_y => 0, client_x => 0, client_y => 0, ctrl => 0, alt => 0, shift => 0, meta => 0, button => 1, ], mouseup => [ MouseEvents => propagates_up => 1, cancellable => 1, detail => 1, screen_x => 0, screen_y => 0, client_x => 0, client_y => 0, ctrl => 0, alt => 0, shift => 0, meta => 0, button => 1, ], mouseover => [ MouseEvents => propagates_up => 1, cancellable => 1, screen_x => 0, screen_y => 0, client_x => 0, client_y => 0, ctrl => 0, alt => 0, shift => 0, meta => 0, ], mousemove => [ MouseEvents => propagates_up => 1, cancellable => 0, screen_x => 0, screen_y => 0, client_x => 0, client_y => 0, ctrl => 0, alt => 0, shift => 0, meta => 0, ], mouseout => [ MouseEvents => propagates_up => 1, cancellable => 1, screen_x => 0, screen_y => 0, client_x => 0, client_y => 0, ctrl => 0, alt => 0, shift => 0, meta => 0, ], domsubtreemodified => [ MutationEvents => propagates_up => 1, cancellable => 0, ], domnodeinserted => [ MutationEvents => propagates_up => 1, cancellable => 0, ], domnoderemoved => [ MutationEvents => propagates_up => 1, cancellable => 0, ], domnoderemovedfromdocument => [ MutationEvents => propagates_up => 0, cancellable => 0, ], domnodeinsertedintodocument => [ MutationEvents => propagates_up => 0, cancellable => 0, ], domattrmodified => [ MutationEvents => propagates_up => 1, cancellable => 0, ], domcharacterdatamodified => [ MutationEvents => propagates_up => 1, cancellable => 0, ], load => [ HTMLEvents => propagates_up => 0, cancellable => 0, ], unload => [ HTMLEvents => propagates_up => 0, cancellable => 0, ], focus => [ HTMLEvents => propagates_up => 0, cancellable => 0, ], blur => [ HTMLEvents => propagates_up => 0, cancellable => 0, ], abort => [ HTMLEvents => propagates_up => 1, cancellable => 0, ], error => [ HTMLEvents => propagates_up => 1, cancellable => 0, ], select => [ HTMLEvents => propagates_up => 1, cancellable => 0, ], change => [ HTMLEvents => propagates_up => 1, cancellable => 0, ], # submit uses the defaults reset => [ HTMLEvents => propagates_up => 1, cancellable => 0, ], resize => [ HTMLEvents => propagates_up => 1, cancellable => 0, ], scroll => [ HTMLEvents => propagates_up => 1, cancellable => 0, ], ); sub defaults { my $evnt_name = lc $_[0]; return exists $defaults{$evnt_name} ? @{$defaults{$evnt_name}} : (''=>propagates_up=>1,cancellable=>1); } # ($event_category, @args) = HTML'DOM'Event'defaults foo; 1; __END__