Event Types Reference

Fired when the animation is finished.

Fired when an animation has been canceled.

Fired when an animator has reached the first frame of the animation.

Fired when an animator moves to the next frame of the animation.

Fired when an animator has reached the last frame of the animation.

Fired when an animation is paused.

Fired when an animation is started.

Fired when an animation is stopped.

Fired when the user generated a command event and navigates backward.

Fired when a control has specified a command attribute and that control's command is invoked. For example, the <aolButton> control in the toolkit can have a command attribute which is invoked when the button is clicked.

Fired when the user generated a command event and navigates forward.

Fired before the contextMenu pops up.

Fired when the DHTML control begins to navigate to a new URL as a result of link being clicked on the page.

Fired when the DHTML finishes parsing HTML content but before the content is displayed.

Fired when the readyState of the page loaded inside a DHTML control changes.

Fired when a new URL is finished loading and displaying in a DHTML control.

Fired when a native window of a scene is brought to the foreground. This typically occurs when the user clicks the window's item in the task bar or chooses the window using Alt-Tab.

Fired when a window belonging to a different application than the active window is about to be activated.

Fired when a window belonging to a different application than the active window is being deactivated.

Fired when a box is created.

Fired when a box is destroyed.

Fired when a native window of a scene loses the focus.

Dispatched to a scene's root box after DOM has been created, prior to first layout and prior to first paint.

Dispatched to all boxes after the their initial layout - at which point geometry should be valid (event dispatched prior to first paint).

Fired when a native window of a scene leaves the foreground. This typically happens when the user chooses another applicaiton in the task bar, or via Alt-Tab.

Fired when the DOM is being destructed, usually when the scene is closed.

Fired when a native window of a scene receives the focus.

Fired when the DOM has been drawn to the screen for the first time.

Dispatched to all boxes each time the box is layed out. KNOWN ISSUE - although this is called after each layout pass, at the time the event is dispatched any geometry changes the user code may make to the box will be ignored, due to the fact that the scene is still being layed out.

Fired when the framed box's position is changed.

Fired when the framed box's size is changed.

Fired when a box is added to a new scene.

Fired before the pop up is closed.

Fired when the user releases the mouse button over a box during a drag-and-drop operation.

Fired when the user moves the mouse during a drag-and-drop operation.

Fired when the user leaves the boundry of a box during a drag-and-drop operation.

Fired when the user enters the boundry of a box during a drag-and-drop operation.

Fired when the user initiates a drag-and-drop operation.

Fired when the user cancels a drag-and-drop operation, for example, by pressing the Esc key.

Fired once when a key is depressed. No other keyDowns will be generated if multiple keys are depressed before the original key is up.

Fired when a key is depressed. Several keyPresses will be generated while the key continues to be depressed.

Fired once when a key is released. This is paired with a keyDown event.

Fired when a mouse button is depressed and released in the same location inside a box.

Fired when a mouse button is depressed inside a box.

Fired when the mouse cursor changes locations inside a box.

Fired when the mouse cursor leaves the boundry of a box.

Fired when the mouse cursor enters the boundry of a box.

Fired when a mouse button is released inside a box.

Fired when a mouse button is depressed and released twice rapidly inside a box.

Fired when a drag-and-drop operation is initiated.

Fired when the mouse wheel is rotated.

If the user moves the cursor over a box, a hoverHold event will be sent to the box with a delay (if the box has instantTooltip property set with some value, the delay will be 1ms, otherwise, the default delay is is system's double click time). If the user press the mouse down and move the cursor over a box, the hoverHold event won't be sent.

If the user left mouse down on a box, a pressHold event will be sent to the box with a delay (if the user set pressHoldDelay property on the box, that property's value will be the delay value, otherwise, the default delay is system's double click time).

If the user clicks the mouse down on a box, he will receive a mouseReleased event when he releases the mouse later. The targetBox of the mouseReleased event will be the same targetBox as the mouseDown event. That is to say, if the user mouseDown when the cursor is on box A and move the cursor over box B and release the mouse, he will get a mouseReleased event whose targetBox is box B.

When the user clicks the left mouse button down on a box, he will receive a mousePress event. This event will be sent with a press timer delay (for now it's 500 ms) after the mouseDown event is sent.

Fired when an attribute of a box is set in script using the setAttribute() function.

Fired when a child is added to a box in script using the insertChildAt(), addChild(), or addContentChild() functions.

Fired when a child of a box is removed in script using the removeChild() or deleteChild() functions.

Used for telling the textboxwin script that the native textbox has collapsed to a single line.

For multiline text boxes; sent when the the native textbox is expanding.

This is a DHTML event; sent when something in the UI of the editor has changed.

Called when a windows display change happens such as someone changing the screen resolution.

This is a DOM event sent when a menu selection is being removed (a new menu item is being selected).

A DOM sent when a menu item is being selected.

DOM event sent when a box's value is being modified. Used for range, select, and native textboxes.

UI event sent when a popup box is opening.

UI event sent when a popup box is closing down.

Fired when a control such as a checkbox has its value toggled.

Fired when user logs off or shuts down computer.