Behaviors without helper functions

Question

Hi all, I'm trying to create a behavior that doesn't require
a behavior
function, is this possible using the behaviors API?
Dreamweaver requires a behaviorFunction() function in
behaviors, and
returnig an empty string results in a message "The Action
will not be
applied".
Is it possible to insert behaviors without a
behaviorfunction?
Sure I can create proxy functions that in turn call the
actual command (eg
alert()) but this seems a lot of overhead to put into the
document.
Joris

Answer 1

"E Michael Brandt" <[email protected]> wrote
in message
news:fb3rqv$qv3$[email protected]..
>
> If you read the Extension help you'll see that certain
functions are
> indeed required by each type of Extension, whether
Behavior, Command, or
> Object. And certain methods are disallowed by each type
as well.
>
Yes i have the manual in front of me, i'm building a behavior
to call
commands in the AIR runtime, the air object is just available
in the
document when the AIRAliases.js is included, it doesn't need
a "helper"
function.
So what i'm doing now is inserting a proxy function to call
the original
function, return the name of the proxy function from
behaviorFunction and
wrap the call, that just seems like a lot of overhead.
Joris
function AIR_exec(cmdName) { //v1.0
if(typeof air != 'Object'){
alert('ERROR: AIR object not loaded, please include
AIRAliases.js');
} else {
var cmd = 'air.'+cmdName+'(';
for(var i=1; i<arguments.length; i++){
cmd += (i==1) ? arguments
: ','+arguments;
cmd += ')'
eval(cmd);
//Return the name of the function that we want to be inserted
into the
user's document.
function behaviorFunction(){
return "AIR_exec";
//Returns the actual function call string that will be
inserted into the
event handler
function applyBehavior() {
addAIRAliases();
return
"AIR_exec('trace',"+document.theForm.traceMessage.value+")";