Event.sinkEvents won't work - gwt

Question

I have a vaadin 7 client widget which has a DIV element in it. I am trying to register the click event on DIV elment through Event.sinkEvents. however the browser events never get fired. Here is the piece of code
public class MyWidget extends Widget{
private final DivElement popup = Document.get().createDivElement();
public MyWidget() {
initDOM();
initListeners();
}
private void initDOM(){
popup.setClassName(STYLECLASS);
setElement(popup);
}
public void initListeners(){
Event.sinkEvents(popup, Event.ONCLICK|Event.MOUSEEVENTS);
Event.setEventListener(popup, new EventListener() {
#Override
public void onBrowserEvent(Event event) {
Window.alert("clicked"); // this never get fired.
event.stopPropagation();
}
});
}
Please suggest any pointer.
Regards,
Azhar

Answer 1

There is never a need to do DOM.setEventListener in a widget (and in fact it should be avoided) - just override the widget's own onBrowserEvent method after sinking those events. By sinking those events and attaching the widget to a parent, GWT has internally called setEventListener on the widget itself so that it can handle its own events.

Answer 2

Instead of using Event#sinkEvents, use Widget#sinkEvents. And override the widget's onBrowseEvent to handle the events.
This should do it:
public class MyWidget extends Widget{
private final DivElement popup = Document.get().createDivElement();
public MyWidget() {
initDOM();
}
private void initDOM(){
popup.setClassName(STYLECLASS)
setElement(popup);
sinkEvents(Event.ONCLICK|Event.MOUSEEVENTS);
}
#Override
public void onBrowserEvent(Event event) {
super.onBrowserEvent(event);
if(event.getTypeInt()==Event.ONCLICK){
Window.alert("Clicked");
}
}
}

Answer 3

Yes, Overridding the onBrowserEvent method works.
below code worked.
Event.sinkEvents(popup, Event.ONCLICK|Event.MOUSEEVENTS);
replaced with
sinkEvents(Event.ONCLICK|Event.MOUSEEVENTS);
Will sink the events on widget and not on any DIV. after that below brower event got fired.
public void onBrowserEvent(Event event) {
Window.alert("clicked"); // this never get fired.
event.stopPropagation();
}
});