Re: Mouse EventListener on SVG group elements

Sorry to insist, but does anyone have a clue on this subject? Or can you at
least point me to some other place where I can ask for help?

Thanks.

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> Hello,
>
> I'm using batik to display SVG files on a JSVGCanvas and I'm trying to
> respond to mouse click events over SVG elements with tags <a>
> (SVGOMAElement) and <g> (SVGOMGElement).
> Here is the code I'm using to add the event listener to a Node:
>
> if ((no.getNodeName().equalsIgnoreCase("a")) ||
> (no.getNodeName().equalsIgnoreCase("g"))) {
>     EventTarget etr = (EventTarget) no;
>     etr.addEventListener(SVGConstants.SVG_EVENT_CLICK, new EventListener()
> {
>                     public void handleEvent(Event evt) {
>                         Log.debug("HANDLE EVENT");
>                     }
>     }, false);
>
> What happens is that the listener is correcly called when an <a> element is
> clicked, but nothing happens when a <g> element is clicked!
> I debuged the code above and verified that the "click" listener is being
> added to the both node's bubblingListeners table
> (etr->eventSupport->bubblingListeners). However, I noticed that the <a>
> elements seem to have two other (default) listeners - for events "mouseout"
> and "mouseover" - which are not present on the <g> elements. I don't believe
> this is the cause, but ...
>
> Any ideas on what could be causing this behaviour?
>
> Regards,
> ABrito
>