The Event Layer

The class qx.event.Manager provides a per-document wrapper for cross-browser DOM event handling. The implementation of the event layer is inside the qx.event namespace.

The following features work in all supported browsers:

• Canceling events: stopPropagation()
• Skipping the browser's default behavior: preventDefault()
• Unified event objects matching the W3C DOM 2 event interface
• Cross-browser event bubbling and capturing phase, even in Internet Explorer
• Mouse event capturing
• Port of the unified qooxdoo 0.7 key event handler to the 1.2 low-level layer. For a full list of available key identifiers see the getKeyIdentifier() method documentation of the qx.event.type.KeySequence class.
• Unified mouse events
  • Normalized double click event sequence mousedown -> mouseup -> click -> mousedown -> mouseup -> click -> doubleclick in Internet Explorer
  • Normalized right click sequence mousedown -> mouseup -> contextmenu in Safari 3 and Opera.
  • Always fire click events if the mouseup happens on a different target than the corresponding mousedown event. Natively only Internet Explorer behaves like that.

UML Class Diagram