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  Event Listeners Outside Of Browser? dman777 <darin.hensley@gmail.com> - 2013-01-28 21:00 -0800
    Re: Event Listeners Outside Of Browser? "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2013-01-29 21:30 +0100

#18290 — Event Listeners Outside Of Browser?

I recently made a scrollbar in javascript to replace the browsers default scrollbar. However, I noticed on the default browser scrollbar if a user mouse downs and hold it, moves the mouse out of the web browser to right, they can still control the scrollbar until they mouse up.

 What I don't understand is how this is accomplished since event listeners can not listen out side of the browser itself. How is this done and how can I do this?

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dman777 wrote on 29 jan 2013 in comp.lang.javascript:

> 
> I recently made a scrollbar in javascript to replace the browsers
> default scrollbar. However, I noticed on the default browser scrollbar
> if a user mouse downs and hold it, moves the mouse out of the web
> browser to right, they can still control the scrollbar until they
> mouse up. 
> 
>  What I don't understand is how this is accomplished since event
>  listeners can not listen out side of the browser itself. How is this
>  done and how can I do this? 

This has nothing to do with javascript eventlisteners, 
it is just the way your machine's operating system is constructed.

The mouse(-pointer) can maintain to be connected to/owned by a programme 
window in focus, not to the programme window or other background it is 
hovering over. [and sometimes the scroll-wheel acts differently.] 

-- 
Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
(Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress)

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