Listener on text.reel?

[Wolfram Kriesing]

Hi, 

I was trying to add a listener to a text.reel so i can handle clicks or whatever on a text field ...

http://montagejs.github.io/mfiddle/#!/0ba4987777aed2bb6f9d

what am I missing here? I tried "click" and "action" but I dont get neither one to work :(

thanks for help in advance

Wolfram

[António Afonso]

Hi Wolfram,

The Text component does not fire any event related to clicks (like the Button does with the `action` event), it's only meant to display text after all.

If you want a component to react to clicks you can use the PressComposer. The composers architecture exist to enrich components with additional, orthogonal, behavior.

http://montagejs.github.io/mfiddle/#!/01a981a7721d60246542

The PressComposer fires the following events: `pressStart`, `press`, `pressEnd`.

Other available composers are: TranslateComposer, KeyComposer and SwipeComposer: https://github.com/montagejs/montage/tree/master/composer

I hope this helps!

[Wolfram Kriesing]

Hi Antonio,

thanks a lot for the answer. 

In the docs is stated "In Montage, the target object can be any JavaScript object, not just a DOM element." http://docs.montagestudio.com/montagejs/event-handling.html that's why I was hoping that I was just too stupid :) Is it that a ui/component in this case text is just not wired up this way by default, right?

Wolfram

[afo...@montagestudio.com]

Actually there was a change in which objects can be a target, but for the case of components this information still holds.

Only objects extending `Target` have the {add,remove}EventListener/dispatchEvent interface implemented and this is the case of the Component.

However, Component does not fire any event by default. Components like the `Button` or the `Checkbox` fire the `action` event. This is explicitly implemented in those components: https://github.com/montagejs/montage/blob/master/ui/base/abstract-button.js#L214-L224