Comments on: Article: Cross-browser ASP.NET AJAX Control Extender support – trickier than I thought

By: Damian

Damian — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 08:45:45 +0000

Hello Bertrand,

The issue is that what is passed in the charCode in the DomEvent is inconsistent across browsers for “special” keys such as the cursor keys for the KeyPress event (which IE doesn’t fire for these kinds of keys — the problem is in FireFox, Safari and Opera).

The only way to determine whether the key that was pressed corresponds to a non-displayable key is to go under the hood.

For example if you hit Ampersand (ascii code 38) you’ll get the same charCode as Sys.UI.Key.up in FireFox, in the KeyPress event.

The relevant section the Ajax runtime is:
if (e.type === ‘keypress’) {
this.charCode = e.charCode || e.keyCode;
}

Damian (damian at atadore com)

By: Bertrand Le Roy

Bertrand Le Roy — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 08:02:47 +0000

I’d be interested to hear why you had to use rawEvent to get to the key codes. Sys.UI.DomEvent should already do a cross-browser, consistent mapping of the codes that you should be able to directly compare with the key enumeration. Can you drop me mail so that we can discuss?

By: salman

salman — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 19:42:52 +0000

Dear Damian,
considering i was trying to adapt the script to work for firefox without any success the cross browser article helped me with a thing or two. Thanks.

By the way what did you use for debugging your code.
trying to set breakpoints in ‘errorless’ javscript using firebug resulted in never hitting the breakpoint unless there is an error in the code. i.e break never occurs.
and when it does hit a breakpoint. the onblur event resets the listsearch div.
Sooo.. I Would be greatful if you could tell me What tools you use and how.(sorry for the lengthy comment)