JavaScript add events cross-browser function implementation: use attachEvent/addEventListener vs inline events

With the 2nd solution, you have to manually call the previous functions, making it hard to remove specific listeners (which, to me, sounds like something you’d rather want than clearing all listeners), while on the first solution, you can only clear them all at the same time, unless you want to emulate the first functionality. … Read more

Registry Watcher C#

WMI can sometimes be interesting to work with…I think I understand your question, so take a look at the code snippet below and let me know if it’s what you’re looking for. // ——————————————————————————————————————— // <copyright file=”Program.cs” company=””> // // </copyright> // <summary> // Defines the WmiChangeEventTester type. // </summary> // ——————————————————————————————————————— namespace WmiExample { … Read more

jquery mousewheel: detecting when the wheel stops?

There’s no “stop” event here really – you get an event when you do scroll, so every time a mousewheel event happens the event is triggered…when there’s nothing you’ll get no events and your handler won’t be firing. You ca however detect when the user hasn’t used it in say 250ms, like this: $(“#myElem”).mousewheel(function() { … Read more

What is the proper way of doing event handling in C++?

Often, event queues are implemented as command design pattern: In object-oriented programming, the command pattern is a design pattern in which an object is used to represent and encapsulate all the information needed to call a method at a later time. This information includes the method name, the object that owns the method and values … Read more

Implementing jQuery’s “live” binder with native Javascript

Here’s a simple example: function live(eventType, elementId, cb) { document.addEventListener(eventType, function (event) { if (event.target.id === elementId) { cb.call(event.target, event); } }); } live(“click”, “test”, function (event) { alert(this.id); }); The basic idea is that you want to attach an event handler to the document and let the event bubble up the DOM. Then, check … Read more

Are Click, Tapped, and PointerPressed synonymous in WinRT-XAML?

Click is there for backwards compatibility, and is essentially the same as Tapped. Tapped is a “high level gesture” that will translate automatically to a click, tap, pen press, etc. and is what I would recommend to use. PointerPressed is not what you want. Here’s why: if I press and hold, the PointerPressed event will … Read more

How would it be possible to remove all event handlers of the ‘Click’ event of a ‘Button’?

Note: Since the question on which I posted my original answer was closed as a duplicate of this question, I’m cross-posting an improved version of my answer here. This answer only applies to WPF. It will not work on Windows Forms or any other UI framework. The below is a helpful utility method for removing … Read more

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