Creates artificial events, like a fake click event.
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define(["jquery", "util"], function ($, util) {
var eventMaker = util.Module("eventMaker");
eventMaker.performClick = function (target) {FIXME: should accept other parameters, like Ctrl/Alt/etc
var event = document.createEvent("MouseEvents");
event.initMouseEvent(
"click", // type
true, // canBubble
true, // cancelable
window, // view
0, // detail
0, // screenX
0, // screenY
0, // clientX
0, // clientY
false, // ctrlKey
false, // altKey
false, // shiftKey
false, // metaKey
0, // button
null // relatedTarget
);FIXME: I'm not sure this custom attribute always propagates? seems okay in Firefox/Chrome, but I've had problems with setting attributes on keyboard events in the past.
event.togetherjsInternal = true;
target = $(target)[0];
var cancelled = target.dispatchEvent(event);
if (cancelled) {
return;
}
if (target.tagName == "A") {
var href = target.href;
if (href) {
location.href = href;
return;
}
}FIXME: should do button clicks (like a form submit) FIXME: should run .onclick() as well
};
eventMaker.fireChange = function (target) {
target = $(target)[0];
var event = document.createEvent("HTMLEvents");
event.initEvent("change", true, true);
target.dispatchEvent(event);
};
return eventMaker;
});