How to access the jQuery event object in a Seaside callback

Question

Basically, I want to translate the following into Seaside Smalltalk:

$(".myDiv").bind('click', function(e) {
    console.log(e);
}); 

Besides that I don't want to console.log the event, but access it in my ajax callback.

The most promising approach seemed to be something like

html div
    onClick: (html jQuery ajax callback: [:v | self halt] value: (???);
    with: 'Foo'.

But I couldn't find any way to access the event that caused the callback. Intuitively, I would try

html jQuery this event

for the ??? part, but the Seaside jQuery wrapper doesn't know any message that comes close to event.

Any help is appreciated. There has to be away to access the event data...

Nevermore

Wow. Congratulations to the one who downvoted this well received question after a year without even bothering to comment. Grow up! – Nevermore

Answer 1

To serialize the x mouse coordinate of the event use the following code:

html div
    onClick: (html jQuery ajax
        callback: [ :x | x inspect ]
        value: JQEvent new pageX);
    with: 'Click'.

There are other properties in the event object that you might be interested in, just serialize them with the same AJAX request by adding multiple callback:value: constructs in a cascade.

In the very latest JQuery code you can use html jQuery event to create the event object. This was missing up to now.

Pronominal

Thanks for your reply. JQEvent seems to be missing. My jQuery Core version is jf.87 - is this a version problem or what could I be doing wrong? – Nevermore

I am at lr.106. You can try to load the latest code, but no guarantee that it works. It looks like there is a new Seaside release to be expected soon. – Pronominal

I tried to, but it doesn't work (at least not when I only update jQuery Core and its direct dependencies). Can you say anything how soon this will be? We are on a tight schedule, unfortunately... – Nevermore

I suggest that you load all the latest packages into a fresh image with the following Gofer scripts: github.com/renggli/builder/blob/master/scripts/seaside3.st and github.com/renggli/builder/blob/master/scripts/…. Or you grab a nightly build from the website seaside.st/download/pharo. – Pronominal