Feedback: Man-Handling Events #2

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Man-Handling Events #2

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Certain key combinations cannot be cancelled
ctrl-n and alt-f4. Perhaps a rundown of those are in order.

Also why not have the mouse in this article - it also uses the modifier keys and it is important to let the reader know the problems like IE only being able to cancel right-click if an alert is shown and that NS ignores mouse cancels on links and in form fields...

Michel

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Under the keydown listing the item concerning the letters a-z and A-Z is not clear to me. Does the (NN only) parentheses after the capital letters imply that these are the only keys that can be detected in Netscape Navigator? Perhaps the whole listing can be done in a sort of table listing with two columns one for IE and the other for Netscape indicating which one will handle the different keys.

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Too short

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First, this is the only place on the web that I found, after much looking, that deals with keyboard events. So, Great!

I like seeing examples, and you provided them. Great!

However, the thing I'm trying to do I still can't do, even after reading your fine remarks.

I am going to host an extranet application written in ColdFusion. I want to trap CTRL-R, F5 and Backspace to insure data integrity. All users will be using IE 5.

It seems that this could have increasing importance to developers who have similar requirements as we have here.

I'd appreciate any good tips.

Thanks

Joe

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Hi,

I enjoyed reading your article and thought it was very worthwhile.

I was actually wondering if there is any way to propagate a keyboard event that has been captured in an objects key down event handler to another object on the page. For example, if I detect the AT-Down Arrow key sequence in object A, I want to set focus to object B and action the ALT-Down Arrow sequence on object B. Is this possible using Javascript?

Regards,
John Papachristos

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I addition, to the example given, what about another example where a character on an english keyboard is substituted by a character of another language or an image(glyph) of another language with all these actions to be performed in the textarea of a form?