mouseDown: not firing in WebView subclass

Question

I think this should be quite simple, but I cannot make it work.

I want to detect mouse clicks on a WebView...

I\'ve subclassed WebView, here

Answer 1

The problem is that the message isn't being sent to the WebView. Instead it is being sent to the private WebHTMLView inside your WebView, which actually processes the mouse events.

http://trac.webkit.org/browser/trunk/Source/WebKit/mac/WebView/WebHTMLView.mm#L3555

You might just want to look into using javascript in your WebView to send the onmousedown events back to your objective-c class.