RE: addEventListener to radio button

You know what, that won't work (at least not reliably) on radio 
buttons.  Here's the problem...

Setting disabled=true makes it so that the browser won't send the data for 
that form element (at least in recent browsers such as Mozilla).  Setting 
this.disabled=true on buttons works because they don't contain data needed 
for processing on the server.  However, when you do this for elements that, 
themselves, contain data that are needed to be processed on the server, you 
shoot yourself in the foot because the data never gets sent for that 
disabled form element.

The only thing that is curious is that you even get data at all for this 
form element because it shoudn't be sent at all.  What browser are you using?

This means that we need to come up with another way selectively disabling 
form elements so that we don't disabled elements that actually contain data 
to send to the server.

Jake

At 11:11 AM 3/31/2003 -0500, you wrote:

>Here is the generated code for the radio button input:
>
><input checked="checked" id="SpaceByRoadway" name="SpaceBy" 
>onclick="this.disabled=true; 
>document.EditForm.action='ActionEvent.event?$eid=TSSDownloadScreen$GetTSSDownloadHandler';document.EditForm.submit(); 
>return false;" type="radio" value="roadway">Roadway &nbsp;
><input id="SpaceByCorridor" name="SpaceBy" onclick="this.disabled=true; 
>document.EditForm.action='ActionEvent.event?$eid=TSSDownloadScreen$GetTSSDownloadHandler';document.EditForm.submit(); 
>return false;" type="radio" value="corridor">Corridor &nbsp;
><input id="SpaceByStation" name="SpaceBy" onclick="this.disabled=true; 
>document.EditForm.action='ActionEvent.event?$eid=TSSDownloadScreen$GetTSSDownloadHandler';document.EditForm.submit(); 
>return false;" type="radio" value="station">Station
>
>
>Im not sure exactly which version of barracuda Im using, but the timestamp 
>on the class files in the JAR is 2/21/2003.
>
>
>David R Robison
>
>Open Roads Consulting, Inc.
>
><http://www.openroadsconsulting.com>http://www.openroadsconsulting.com
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: [email protected] 
>[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jacob Kjome
>Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 4:24 PM
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: [Barracuda] addEventListener to radio button
>
>
>
>
>Hi David,
>
>I think this is a problem with the way Barracuda currently does form 
>submittal via javascript.  Just like you said, the form gets submitted 
>before the value is changed.  Normally you wouldn't run into this because 
>you'd set you form components to their appropriate values and then click a 
>"submit" button which would have the listener attached to it.  Hmm....
>
>Can you send a snippet of the generated html for this page just for 
>reference?  Then we can think about what might be done to solve this issue.
>
>Oh, and what version of Barracuda are you using?  A release or the latest CVS?
>
>Jake
>
>At 03:54 PM 3/28/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>
>I have 3 <INPUT> elements all of type "radio" and with the same "name". I want
>to catch an event whenever a new selection is made. The values of the input
>fields are "one", "two", "three". I start with the <INPUT> "one" selected. 
>When
>I click on "two" or "three" the event gets directed to my event listener 
>but the
>value of the "radio" is still "one". No matter what I click, the value is 
>always
>returned as "one". It seems that the event is firing when a radio button is
>clicked but before the selected value has been changed. Any ideas on what 
>may be
>happening or how to work around it?
>
>Thanks,
>David Robison
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