568947 - ontextentered should be a real event

Status: RESOLVED INACTIVE

(Toolkit :: Autocomplete, defect)

Description

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Just wasted 2 hours, because ontextentered is documented to be an event, but it's not. addEventListener() does not work, and not even ontextentered="onTextEntered(event);" works. The latter also fails silently, due to |event| being undefined, but without any error on the error console or OS console.

The autocomplete.xml fireEvent() method "is just plain wrong" (quote). You should just fire a real event. If there's anything speaking against it, solve it in a different way.

This is just a mean foot angle. Haha, yet another XUL developer on the floor.

Comment 1

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

<https://developer.mozilla.org/En/XUL/Textbox_%28Toolkit_autocomplete%29#a-ontextentered>
says "This event handler is called when a result is selected for the textbox."

Comment 2

[Ian Nartowicz]

How is it an event handler if there is no event object?

Comment 3

[BMO Automation]

Per policy at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Bug_Triage/Projects/Bug_Handling/Bug_Husbandry#Inactive_Bugs. If this bug is not an enhancement request or a bug not present in a supported release of Firefox, then it may be reopened.