Question

In Dashcode you can set up a handler for a behavior in the inspector.

Here’s a sample handler for a button click on a button I’ve named “mybutton1” in the Inspector:

function myGetButtonName(event)
{
    var e = event.target;
    alert(e.id);
}

The problem is, when the button is clicked and the alert comes up it says the ID of the button is “DC_img1” rather than “myButton1” (which is what shows in the inspector in the id field).

I guess I’m not accessing the correct id.

Does anyone know how to get the id that shows in the attributes tab of the inspector?

Thanks!

Answer 1

OK, it turns out that the “id” that you may set on the attributes tab of the Dashcode Inspector is the CSS id of the element. I didn’t realize that before.

To get that info I used this:

var x=event.currentTarget;
alert(x.id);

I don’t know if it’s the best way, but it gave me the correct result for each of the images that I was clicking on. I’m now getting the CSS id in the alert.