Events firing but no event data, how do I get it

[SteveRicketts]

I copied the code out of http://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:WebPlugin to register vlc events to help me figure out why vlc is not running in IE. Two events fire, but the event is null as is windows.event. How to I get the information on what event fired?

// event callback function for testing
function handleEvents(event)
{
if (!event) // <------------------------- event is null here
event = window.event; // IE <-------------- window.event also null
if (event.target) {
// Netscape based browser
targ = event.target;
} else if (event.srcElement) {
// ActiveX
targ = event.srcElement;
} else {
// No event object, just the value
alert("Event value" + event );
return;
}
if (targ.nodeType == 3) // defeat Safari bug
targ = targ.parentNode;
alert("Event " + event.type + " has fired from " + targ );
}

[jack.ting]

Hi, SteveRicketts:

I've the same problem of identifing the event source, too.
And, it seems there's no related discussion of such topic. (I've posted one on the windows related board, but got no answer)

Since that I only want to catch/process one event (the 'MediaPlayerEndReached'),
so instead I check the input.state of all my VLC instances as a alternate solution.

I've download the source code, and trying to figure out why.
But due to the limitation of my programming knowledge of ActiveX, Mozilla plugin, and the spec. of javascript, currently I still found nothing at all.