Polymer ready() and event listeners

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You question is missing how you use those pm-list and pm-tabmenu elements.
Do you use them inside another Polymer element or directly in the body ?

I would also recommend to use data-binding rather than events (you can publish the selected property of the paper-tabs element in your pm-tabmenu element and bind against it.

If you want to use custom events and the pm-list and ´pm-tabmenu` elements are siblings you have to manually send the events to the siblings (see here fore more infos).

You can also conside the <core-signals> element to implement a pubsub kind of behavior (see here fore more infos).

This is a working example with events and assuming that both elements are siblings:

http://jsbin.com/wexov/11/edit


UPDATE:

The reason why your code doesn't work is because you add the EventListener for your pmtabmenuselect event to your pm-list element, which is the wrong element. This will only work if you would also fire this event inside your pm-list element which you don't (this is not a Polymer issue but rather a general event/javascript thing).

You fire the pmtabmenuselect event inside your pm-tabmenu which is more or less a sibling to your pm-list element. There is no way to directly handle this event inside your pm-list element because it bubbles up.

The only solution is to handle the event in your core-header-panel and fire it again inside the pm-list element (as described in the Polymer docs)

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Updated on June 06, 2022

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  • Greg
    Greg over 1 year

    I am running into weird behaviour when following examples from polymer website on custom event creation and delegation (https://www.polymer-project.org/articles/communication.html). I have polymer tabs firing my custom event when the tab changes, and now I am trying for my another custom element to listen for an event and react, but there is something I am missing obviously, as the event is not being picked up from within ready() function. However, if I bind it to window, I can see it fires without any problems, so a second pair of eyes would be appreciated :)

    This is the custom element firing an event when tab is changed:

    <polymer-element name="pm-tabmenu">
        <template>
            <style>
                :host {
                    display:block;
                }
            </style>
            <paper-tabs selected="1" id="tabmenu">
                <paper-tab id="pm-tabmenu-all" state="all">All</paper-tab>
                <paper-tab id="pm-tabmenu-wip" state="wip">In Progress</paper-tab>
                <paper-tab id="pm-tabmenu-finished" state="finished">Finished</paper-tab>
            </paper-tabs>
        </template>
        <script>
    
            Polymer({
                ready: function () {
                    var tabs = this.$.tabmenu;
                    tabs.addEventListener('core-select', function (event) {
                        if (event.detail.isSelected) {
                            this.fire("pmtabmenuselect", {
                                state: event.detail.item.getAttribute('state')
                            });
                            alert(event.detail.item.getAttribute('state'));                         
                        }
                    });
                }
            });
        </script>
    </polymer-element>
    

    This is how I want to capture an event in another custom element:

    <polymer-element name="pm-list">
        <template>
            <style>
                :host {
                    display:block;
                }
            </style>
            <h1> Current filter: {{filter}}</h1>
        </template>
        <script>
            window.addEventListener('pmtabmenuselect', function (e) {
                alert("This does fire");
            });
            Polymer({
                filter: "Not yet defined",
                ready: function () {
                    this.addEventListener('pmtabmenuselect', function (e) {
                        alert("This does not fire");
                    });
                }
            });
         </script>
    </polymer-element>
    

    In the index file both elements are included and then invoked, but there is no section as I would not think it is needed at the moment.

    <core-header-panel flex main>
                <core-toolbar class="medium-tall">
                    <paper-icon-button icon="menu" core-drawer-toggle></paper-icon-button>
                    <div flex>Tests</div>
                    <paper-icon-button icon="search"></paper-icon-button>
                    <paper-icon-button icon="more-vert"></paper-icon-button>
    
                    <div class="bottom fit" horizontal layout>
                        <pm-tabmenu flex style="max-width: 600px;"></pm-tabmenu>
                    </div>
                </core-toolbar>
                <pm-list></pm-list>
            </core-header-panel>
    
  • Greg
    Greg about 9 years
    I have added the way I was intending on using these elements. The idea was to have certain independent components on the page, and with broadcasting custom events each of these could react accordingly. I am a bit confused why this did not work as I would think the code itself had no issues, is this scope or shadowDOM related? And as for independent components broadcasting into the wild, it seems <core-signals> might actually be the way forward.
  • Ümit
    Ümit about 9 years
    I edited the post to further describe why your code doesn't work.