I wonder how you approach the following issue: I have a bunch of thumbnails that are turned into an "thumbnail grid" by a small class. It grabs the container, stores all thumbs in a list, attaches events like a click that checks if the clicked on thumb is another one than the one set as current. If yes, it fires an event... can't get any easier. (Similar like Arieh's earlier post here: http://groups.google.com/group/mootools-users/browse_thread/thread/99be5cd0c6a5ebec)
I've extended that class to add functionality so it works with Ryan Florence's SlideShow. The extended class also creates the basic stuff needed for SlideShow (a slide for each thumb) and does a little more. Now when you click a thumb, it tells me the slide is ready or not & waiting to be moved. Basically you have a gallery now. Can't get any easier. The app picks up the fired event and starts with a queue of actions, basically a chain of fx, including a call to the SlideShow to slide in the clicked image. The goal is to prevent thumb clicks (actions starting after the click) when the chain of fx is still running. When the slide is moving and other animation is still running I can keep clicking the thumbs which register as fresh clicks, since the thumbnail class attached a click event and the chain of fx run independant of this. My current "solution" is also a cheap one: I place a div above the thumbnail grid with a transparent background so you can't click the thumbs below. When the chain is done I remove it and you can click the thumbs again. So even though this works, it doesn't feel like a proper solution. OK- before I broke it up in parts, I butchered this together (deadlines!) in a big singleton class and I used a this._busy variable (set to true or false) and I could easily see in the thumbnail click event if my app was busy and return/do nothing if this was the case... Your toughts are appreciated! Rolf
