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I've never done this before... can you point me to any further information? I see UIComponent.getAttributes(), and I suspect I must add onswitch to the Map returned by this method (among other things), but could really use some help...I'm googling and scanning through JSF books in meantime.

"grimholtz" wrote:
I've never done this before... can you point me to any further information? I see UIComponent.getAttributes(), and I suspect I must add onswitch to the Map returned by this method (among other things), but could really use some help...I'm googling and scanning through JSF books in meantime.

check that your 'onswitch' is invoked when you press any button. I.e. ppp:selectManyPicklist onswitch="alert('works')"

If it works, you can say a4j:support event="onswitch" reRender="pg1"

check that your 'onswitch' is invoked when you press any button

Hmm. It looks like we are not on the same page.
You need to invoke onswitch on the client side. It is not about form submitting at all.

"SergeySmirnov" wrote:
Hmm. It looks like we are not on the same page.
You need to invoke onswitch on the client side. It is not about form submitting at all.

"SergeySmirnov" wrote:
Hmm. It looks like we are not on the same page.
You need to invoke onswitch on the client side. It is not about form submitting at all.

I know how to write custom Javascript events. I know how to write custom server-side Faces events. Why can't I put this knowledge together to solve this problem?

Curiously, you do not have to have both of them. I guess the task is much much simpler that you are trying to do. Did you add attribute with name 'onswitch' to your component?

"SergeySmirnov" wrote:
Curiously, you do not have to have both of them. I guess the task is much much simpler that you are trying to do. Did you add attribute with name 'onswitch' to your component?

"grimholtz" wrote:

"SergeySmirnov" wrote:
So I have Javascript that, when the button is clicked, fires a Javascript 'switch' event. After your previous post, I see this isn't correct.

No. This is correct. You need to do so. If you see alert box clicking on any button, that is only what you need.

I cannot get < a4j:support > to recognize the event. This might be an IE6 problem (IE6 doesn't support custom onmyevent="" attributes to < input> elements. However, it does support custom JS events and I have one firing when the < input> elements are clicked.

What JS can I write in my custom JS event handler to perform an ajax4jsf submit (as the a4j:support would do)?

Thanks,
grimholtz

Another way of asking this question: can I get a4j:support to render target.addEventListener() or target.attachEvent() instead of onswitch="" attribute?

the answer in NO

I am not sure I understand why you speak about IE6 and input. The onswitch should be the attribute of the top html element of your component. It is not an input for sure.

I got it working. I will write a tutorial for others. Sergey, you should know that as documented in "Javascript: The Definitive Guide, 5th Edition" (David Flanagan, August 2006, O'Reilly Publishing) Chapter 17.7 Synthetic ("Custom") Events:

The DOM event model allows synthetic events of any type, but the IE model supports only synthetic events of predefined types. dataavailable events are the most generic predefined type supported by IE...