How to fire an event without a button on the webserver?

[Tomkun]

Hello.

I am using the EventGhost webserver and so far it's working great. I am a little stuck on how to get events to fire without a button though. I want to use onbeforeunload to fire an event when somebody closes the browser or navigates to another page. So far I have this:

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<script>
function closeIt()
{

}
window.onbeforeunload = closeIt;
</script>

But I don't know what to put in the { } to fire an event.

I hope you can understand what I mean and am trying to do. Could anybody help me?

[krambriw]

You can try the attached html page, it works for me. When I close the page, I receive an event in EG as expected.

Best regards, Walter

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[Tomkun]

Thank you very much! I'll try it now.

[Pako]

Dear Walter!
I (completely independently of you) reached a very similar solution.
However, there are some differences:
1. I chose the POST method.
2. I did not deal with the different compatibility of the different browsers. My solution only works with Chrome and Firefox (and partly Opera). Opera does not support onbeforeunload event (so it can not work with you too).
3. My solution allows the user to submit events when navigate to another page (for each page you can select another event).

Pako

[krambriw]

Dear Pako,

This is funny, yes really a coincidence!

You are right, my suggestion I tested only in Chrome, I picked some old simple code I had since before.

Your sample is much better and more advanced, really nice!

My kindest regards, Walter