Handling keydown and keypress events

[udvranto]

Hi,
We are trying to use a phpfreechat on a localized version of Drupal. We need to hook the keyboard events from the chat textarea so that we can use our existing javascript code for local language input. Where is the textarea initialized? How can I hook it?

Thanks in advance.

[udvranto]

In themesdefaultchat.js.tpl.php I added the keyboard handler js files

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<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.myhost.com/next/common.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.myhost.com/next/cookies.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.myhost.com/next/layout.js"></script>

In themesdefaultchat.html.tpl.php I added the keyboard handler

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      <td class="pfc_td2">
        <input type="text"
               id="pfc_words"
               title="<?php echo _pfc("Enter your message here"); ?>"
               maxlength="<?php echo $max_text_len; ?>"
               style="font-size:16px;""
               onkeydown="return KeyBoardDown(event);"
               onkeypress="return KeyBoardPress(event);"/>
      </td>

I can see it from "firebug" firefox extension but its not working. Any clue?

I have scripts disabled in my drupal filter.

[phpfreechat]

onkeydown onkeypress events are registred in data/public/js/pfcclient.js

Maybe it overloads yours ?

[udvranto]

Thank you very much kerphi. That was it. I simply called my keyboard handler function after the special keys were taken care of in pfcclient.js. And it just worked.

You made my day.