Re: XUL panel steals input events

Hi Neil,

Yes that's right, I was referring to the behavior when closing the popup 
by clicking outside.
In the firefox DevTools, I'm adding image previews to when you mouseover 
a tag in the markup inspector. But normally, when you click on a tag, it 
selects it. After I had added the panels on mouseover/out in there, and 
when one of them was displayed, clicking on the tag no longer selected 
it, I needed two click, as the first was consumed.

I just tried that consumeoutsideclicks attribute, I didn't know about it 
before, and it seems to do the trick really nicely!

Thanks


On 9/27/13 3:43 PM, Neil Deakin wrote:
> On 2013-09-27 5:53 AM, Patrick Brosset wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm currently working on adding a set of preview tooltips to our firefox
>> devtools (previewing images, CSS gradients, colors, etc ...) and I'm
>> making use of XUL panels for this (specifically arrow type panels) cause
>> they are nice and consistent with the rest of the Firefox UI (for
>> instance with the download list top right).
>>
>> One problem I'm facing now is that even with the noautofocus attribute
>> set to true, when my panel appears (after I called openPopup(anchor)),
>> the panel seems to be stealing my click events.
>> In fact, I then need to click twice instead of just once on the
>> underlying anchor element to focus it.
>>
>
> Could you be clearer about what you mean here? The focus only affects 
> key events.
>
> Are you referring to the behaviour when closing the popup by clicking 
> outside of it, the mouseevent gets ignored? You can change that (with 
> the consumeoutsideclicks attribute) but you shouldn't do so unless you 
> know why you need to.
>