fire a keypress event

[datactrl]

Hi, all

Is that possible to fire a "tab" key press event with javascript?

jack

[Vincent van Beveren]

Re: fire a keypress event

> Is that possible to fire a "tab" key press event with javascript?

Not that I know of, but what is it you want to accompish with it?
Maybe it can be done in a different way.

[datactrl]

Re: fire a keypress event

I would like to use shift+left as shift+tab and shift+right as tab.

jack

[Vincent van Beveren]

Re: fire a keypress event

> I would like to use shift+left as shift+tab and shift+right as tab.

There is a object.fireEven t method, and a document.create Event method..
you could try to manipulate those, but I tried, and I didn't succeed in
emulating a tab or shift-tab.

[datactrl]

Re: fire a keypress event

Thanks Vincent.

I ve tried to change the key code in keyDown event. It will work for
shift+left for shift+tab. For shift+right for tab, because shiftKey property
is readonly, just can't set it to false. So it works as shift+tab as well.
That's the problem!

Jack
"Vincent van Beveren" <vincent@provid ent.remove.this .nl> wrote in message
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> > I would like to use shift+left as shift+tab and shift+right as tab.[/color]
>
> There is a object.fireEven t method, and a document.create Event method..
> you could try to manipulate those, but I tried, and I didn't succeed in
> emulating a tab or shift-tab.
>[/color]

[Vincent van Beveren]

Re: fire a keypress event

In the event, you can fire a new event.

newevent = document.create EventObject(old event)

The new event is a copy of the other event, except for that you
can modify everything.

newevent.shiftK ey = false;

Now you'll need to resend it though.

oldevent.srcEle ment.fireEvent( "on"+oldevent.t ype,newevent);

Look at the MSDN for more info

http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/methods/createeventobject.asp

http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/methods/fireevent.asp

Something like that.

Though I must admit, I didn't get it to work, this should work (in
theory)

Good luck,
Vincent

datactrl wrote:[color=blue]
> Thanks Vincent.
>
> I ve tried to change the key code in keyDown event. It will work for
> shift+left for shift+tab. For shift+right for tab, because shiftKey property
> is readonly, just can't set it to false. So it works as shift+tab as well.
> That's the problem!
>[/color]

[datactrl]

Re: fire a keypress event

Thanks Vincent, I put the following code on "onkeydown" .

var my1 = document.create EventObject(eve nt);
my1.keyCode = 9;
my1.shiftKey = true;
event.srcElemen t.fireEvent("on "+event.type,my 1);
event.keyCode = 0;
event.returnVal ue=false;

When I trace it, it does go to fireEvent. But it didn't work as shift+tab.

Jack