Store the currently selected item in a page variable and then write your
transition function to use it:
var current_box;
function transition_effect(new_box) {
$(current_box).fade({duration: 0.2});
$(new_box).appear({duration: 0.2});
current_box = new_box;
}
<a href="#" onclick="transition_effect('researchthemepositionbox'); return
false;">Research Theme</a>
Or something along those lines.
-Fred
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 6:50 AM, Heine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi all!
>
> My first post here, so: be gentle ;-)
>
> I have been playing around with the scriptaculous library for a while
> now, and I must admit it is great. However, there is one thing that
> I'm notable to achieve:
>
> On Apple computers website for ilife (iphoto)
> http://www.apple.com/ilife/iphoto/
> there is a verrrryyy nice fade effect going on when you click the
> navigation for 'new in iPhoto '08', 'Organize by Events' etc.
>
> Is it possible to get this effect working with scriptaculous?
>
> So far, I've managed get things going part of the way with this ocde:
>
> "<a href="#" onmousedown="$('budgetpositionbox').fade({duration:0.2});
> return false;" onmouseup="$
> ('researchthemepositionbox').appear({duration:0.2}); return
> false;">Research Theme</a>"
>
> Where the '...positionbox' is the <div> that fades in and out.
>
> BUT: my problem here is that I have to hard code things so that my
> menu would be something like:
>
>
> - Budget
> - Research Theme
> - Basic Requirements
> - Evaluation
>
> By default the page loads with the 'budget' layer displayed and the
> others hidden!
> When I click on 'Research Theme' as my example shows, I fade the
> budgetpositionbox out and make the researchthempositionbox appear.
>
> Everything works well, as longs as I click the links in the above
> listed order. But everything falls apart when I click the links at
> random, obviously since everything is hard coded.
>
> My question to this group is: Is there a way for me to know that the
> layer to fade out will always be the layer that I'm leaving, and how
> can I pick that up en i.e. a variable of some sort?
>
> Have in mind that I'm not very skilled at JavaScript, but I'm very
> good at copy/paste!!
>
> Thank you
>
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