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Hi,

behaviors are Atlas components that allows to dynamically add/remove client-side functionality from controls. For example, if I want to handle click and keypress events, I could attach the corresponding behaviors to an Atlas control. Then, if I don’t want to handle the click event anymore for that control, all I have to do is detach the corresponding behavior from the control. In this way you obtain a control with a dynamic “behavior”.

Please check this article for some details about coding an Atlas behavior.

Regarding your requirements, as bleroy suggested, Atlas has a builtin that you can use to make a control handle the click event. For the keypress event, bleroy itself and Wilco Bauwer have already coded two specific behaviors; you can click here to get the bleroy’s one and here to get the Wilco’s one.

Otherwise, if you need a very basic behavior, similar to the , here’s my version:

Type.registerNamespace('AtlasExamples.WebUI');

AtlasExamples.WebUI.KeyPressBehavior = function() {
AtlasExamples.WebUI.KeyPressBehavior.initializeBase(this);
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// Private members.
var _keypressHandler;
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// Events.
this.keypress = this.createEvent();
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// Initialize / Dispose.
this.initialize = function() {
AtlasExamples.WebUI.KeyPressBehavior.callBaseMethod(this, ‘initialize’);
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_keypressHandler = Function.createDelegate(this, keypressHandler);
this.control.element.attachEvent(’onkeypress’, _keypressHandler);
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}
this.dispose = function() { �
this.control.element.detachEvent(’onkeypress’, _keypressHandler);
_keypressHandler = null;
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AtlasExamples.WebUI.KeyPressBehavior.callBaseMethod(this, ‘dispose’);
}
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// Descriptor.
this.getDescriptor = function() {
var td = AtlasExamples.WebUI.KeyPressBehavior.callBaseMethod(this, ‘getDescriptor’);
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td.addEvent(’keypress’, true);
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return td;
}
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// Event Handler.
function keypressHandler() {
this.keypress.invoke(this, Web.EventArgs.Empty);
}
}
Type.registerClass(’AtlasExamples.WebUI.KeyPressBehavior’, Web.UI.Behavior);
Web.TypeDescriptor.addType(’script’, ‘keyPressBehavior’, AtlasExamples.WebUI.KeyPressBehavior);

and finally, an example that use the and the to solve your problem (just change the script reference in the ScriptManager to the correct path to the behavior file):

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function onTextBoxClick() {
alert(’TextBox clicked!’);
}
function onTextBoxKeyPress() {
alert(’Key pressed in TextBox! KeyCode is ‘ + window.event.keyCode);
}