Re: Dispatch event through DOM event interface

[email protected] wrote:
> The nsIDOMEventTarget and nsIDOMEvent interfaces allow one to dispatch
> synthetic event to certain element at target. This is working fine for
> triggering event handlers. However, I find these simulated events
> don't change focus, selection ect. For example, if I simulate a click
> on a text node at certain screen location, the onclick handler will
> fire on the parent of this text node, but the caret won't move there.
> Similarly, a simulated click on a button won't switch the focus to the
> button. Is there a way to achieve those?

Those rely on the frame-tree dispatch; the DOM-only dispatch is not enough. 
There are some nsIWindowUtils methods to do what you want, I think.

-Boris