I am trying to connect an onMouseDown
event to an image with dojo.connect
like:
dojo.connect(dojo.byId("workpic"), "onMouseDown", workpicDown);
function workpicDown()
{
alert("mousedown");
}
Similar code a few lines later, where I'm connecting onMouse*
events to dojo.body
does work completely properly.
but when I click on the image, I'm not seeing the alert window, so the event doesn't get called. Why is that?
"onMouseDown" should be all lower case when used with DOM events as opposed to Widget events. Try:
dojo.connect(dojo.byId("workpic"), "onmousedown", workpicDown);
From the documentation:
A note about the event names: Event
names now are lower case, except in
special cases (e.g., some Mozilla DOM
events). Dojo will add "on" to your
event name if you leave it off (e.g.,
'click' and 'onclick' are the same
thing to dojo). This differs from
Widget Events in the sense Dijit uses
mixedCase event names, to avoid
potential conflicts.
Probably it's problem with execution context. Try to use fallowing:
dojo.connect(dojo.byId("workpic"), "onMouseDown",window, "workpicDown");
window.workpicDown = function()
{
alert("mousedown");
}