63847 - Fire event (onselect?) when menuitems are selected

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: XUL, defect)

Description

[Blake Ross]

For bug 47434 and others, having a certain event fire whenever a menuitem (or a 
top-level menu) is highlighted (by any method) would be extremely useful.  How 
about onselect?  I think that currently only fires when tree items are selected.

Comment 1

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

won't you get this when we have DOM2 mutation events? 

hyatt? can you comment?

Comment 2

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

if you just want to do statusTips, this isn't a big priority. A new event would
be preferable to using mutation events, though, as those would slow things down
a lot.

Comment 3

[David Hyatt]

should be a new event, since I am going to need to use onselect for menulists
eventually (i.e., the act of picking an item).  onmenuactive would be my
preferred name.

Comment 4

[Christopher Stone]

why not use onfocus and onblur events?

Comment 5

[Brendan Eich [:brendan]]

Are we just arguing about names (menuactive vs. focus)?  Or would the new event
have to be distinct from a focus event targeting the menu item?

/be

Comment 6

[Alex Vincent [:WeirdAl]]

What's the status on this bug?  If it's not fixed, I'm willing to do the work necessary to fire the event.

Comment 7

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

DOMMenuItemActive?

Comment 8

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

(In reply to comment #7)
> DOMMenuItemActive?

Right.