I take that back -- you're declaring it without the 'var' keyword so the
scope is global.

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 7:22 PM, Tim Romano <[email protected]> wrote:

> If variable *photo* is declared inside the load() function, its scope is
> local to the load() function; inside myTouch() it will be undefined.  Photo
> would either have to be declared outside a function as a global, or you
> could pass it to myTouch() as an argument by myTouchEnd() if the touches
> array gives you access at that juncture to the DIV element you are trying to
> move.
>
> Regards
> Tim Romano
> Swarthmore PA
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 5:47 PM, Glyn Szasz <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> The variable 'photo' is declared in the load function (which is run when
>> the html page is loaded according to the body onLoad)
>> Hope that helps.
>>
>> Glyn
>>
>> On 18/06/2010, at 3:56 AM, Tim Romano wrote:
>>
>> Glyn,
>> I am even newer, and was looking at your code to learn a little. Where is
>> variable 'photo' declared to make it visible inside function myTouch()?
>> Regards
>> Tim Romano
>> Swarthmore PA
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 8:36 AM, Glyn Szasz <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I am very new to this world of web  dev using webkit, javascript and css.
>>>
>>> I am trying to make an element on my page move when I swipe across the
>>> iPad. I can capture the swipe and get the direction of the move. If I set my
>>> img to have an id="myPhoto" the img element will move but when I move the
>>> id="myPhoto" to a div or any other element (such as a ul) I get no movement
>>> even though the swipe has been registered.
>>>
>>> I hope that this is the correct list to post this question to. If not
>>> could you please point me in the direction.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>> Glyn Szasz
>>> Sydney, Australia
>>>
>>> This is my html:
>>> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
>>> <html>
>>>     <head>
>>>         <title>My Test</title>
>>>         <meta content="yes" name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable">
>>>         <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-style" content="
>>> black" />
>>>         <meta content="minimum-scale=1.0, width=device-width,
>>> maximum-scale=0.6667,user-scalable=no" name="viewport">
>>>         <link href="css/glynstyle.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
>>>         <script src="javascript/main.js" type="text/javascript" language
>>> ="JavaScript">
>>>         </script>
>>>     </head>
>>>     <body id="theBody" onLoad="load();">
>>>     <div id="myPhoto">
>>>     <p>my paragraph<br>more text</p>
>>>     <img src="pages/ipad_vert1.JPG" alt="ipad_vert1" width="768" height
>>> ="1023">
>>>  </div>
>>>     </body>
>>> </html>
>>>
>>> This is the javascript:
>>> function load()
>>> {
>>>   photo = document.getElementById("myPhoto");
>>>   photo.addEventListener("touchstart", myTouchStart, false);
>>>   photo.addEventListener("touchend", myTouchEnd, false);
>>>   i =0;
>>> }
>>>
>>> function myTouchStart(event) {
>>> event.preventDefault();
>>>  touchXstart = event.touches[0].clientX;
>>> targetID = event.touches[0].target.id;
>>>  // alert(targetID+" is targetID");
>>> }
>>>
>>> function myTouchEnd(event) {
>>> event.preventDefault();
>>>  touchXend = event.changedTouches[0].clientX;
>>> myTouch();
>>> }
>>>
>>> function myTouch() {
>>>
>>>  //whatMoveX = photo.x;
>>> TouchDist = touchXstart - touchXend;
>>>  var currentPos = photo.x;
>>>  if (TouchDist >= 0) {
>>> i = i-1;
>>>  moveDist = -(currentPos-100)*i;
>>>  photo.style.webkitTransform ='translateX('+moveDist+'px)';
>>>  //alert("swipe right");
>>> } else {
>>>  i = i+1;
>>> moveDist = (currentPos+100)*i;
>>>  photo.style.webkitTransform ='translateX('+moveDist+'px)';
>>>
>>>  // alert("swipe is left");
>>> }
>>>  alert(i);
>>> }
>>>
>>>
>>> This is the css:
>>> body {
>>>
>>> margin: 0px;
>>>  padding: 0px;
>>>  background-color: #b9b9b9;
>>>
>>> }
>>>
>>> #myPhoto {
>>>  -webkit-transition: all 1s;
>>> }
>>>
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