[Greasemonkey] User input

[Johan Sundström]

> Johan Sundström wrote:
> > I agree. You can make very good user interfaces if you are the
> > slightest bit ambitious about it. I like the approach I took with one
> > of my recent more ambitious hacks, in setting up a home page for it
> > with docs, new releases and configuration interface, all in one:
> >
> > http://ecmanaut.blogspot.com/2006/02/mark-my-links-configuration-updates.htm

On 3/27/06, Vectorspace <vectorspace at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> That's really cool.
> Question - how does the GM script know that you clicked Save Changes?
> My JavaScript is amateurish at best, so use simple speak :)

I register an onclick handler on the Save Changes button that invokes
my save action. I'm afraid you'll probably have to get a bit technical
about the DOM, event handlers and the like to implement solutions like
the above with today's (short supply of) supporting scaffolding to do
good UI:s.

If you borrow some code from my script, it might become a bit easier;
there is a gob of EventMgr code (lifted off this list) I use to
register (and automatically unregister, hoping to avoid the memory
leaks otherwise associated with using event handlers sloppily in
greasemonkey scripts) the event handlers.

Assuming you have a config page with a button with an id="save"
attribute, you can then invoke your own save() function using this
code:

EventMgr.add( document.getElementById("save"), "click", save, false );

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 / Johan Sundström, http://ecmanaut.blogspot.com/