Rails spinoffs - May 2006 - Catching events outside document (on window chrome)

Hello,

How can I catch the onmouseup event outside the ducument - means when  
the pointer is above window chrome (e.g. toolbar)?

Event.observe(document, ''mouseup'', someListener) works only
inside the
document for me.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Thomas
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On Sunday 21 May 2006 11:07, Thomas Anderson wrote:
> Hello,
>
> How can I catch the onmouseup event outside the ducument - means when
> the pointer is above window chrome (e.g. toolbar)?
>
> Event.observe(document, ''mouseup'', someListener) works
only inside the
> document for me.
you can''t.

I even tried observing window''s mouseup event and it still only worked
inside
the viewport.

-Jeremy


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There must be a way... have a look at demo.script.aculo.us/shop and try  
to drop some item above the window chrome - it just works there (and I  
have no idea how is it possible). Anyone can help me explain it?

On Sunday, May 21, 2006, at 5:08 PM, Jeremy Kitchen
wrote:
>On Sunday 21 May 2006 11:07, Thomas Anderson wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> How can I catch the onmouseup event outside the ducument - means when
>> the pointer is above window chrome (e.g. toolbar)?
>>
>> Event.observe(document, ''mouseup'', someListener)
works only inside the
>> document for me.
>
>you can''t.
>
>I even tried observing window''s mouseup event and it still only
>worked inside
>the viewport.
>
>-Jeremy
>
>
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> There must be a way... have a look at demo.script.aculo.us/shop and  
> try
> to drop some item above the window chrome - it just works there (and I
> have no idea how is it possible). Anyone can help me explain it?
On the Mac OS, this works with Safari but not with FireFox. I don''t  
know what the behaviour is on Windows. (Perhaps that''s what
you''re
testing with?) The problem is that while there''s certainly a mouseup  
event happening in the area of the window chrome, it''s "because
of" a
mousedown event happening in the document area.

Perhaps a better question is: what are you trying to do?


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