<IMPLEMENTS ID="kuku" TYPE="Behavior" DEFAULT><EVENT NAME="onFifthBlink"/></IMPLEMENTS>

The generation of the event inside the scriptlet's implementation section is accomplished via the fireEvent() method. In our example, we simply count the number of blinks and then invoke the fireEvent() function after five blinks:

counter +=1;    
if (counter == 10) {        
  fireEvent("onFifthBlink");        
  counter = 0;  
}

Notice that we count to 10 instead of 5, because each blink consists of two visibility changes. Also, we reset the counter variable, to allow the event to be fired after every five blinks, not necessarily the first five.

The fired events are associated with the DHTML element from which the Behavior was called. In our Blinking Soccer example, we just pop up an alert box every five blinks:

<DIV CLASS="soccer" ... onFifthBlink = "alert('Fifth Blink Point')" ...

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