var listener = function(e){
//do something cool like a mouse trail!
clearTimeout(this.timer); //so you don't get tripped up
if the user is hyper.
this.timer = setTimeout(function(){
Event.stopObserving("target", "mouseover", listener);
}, 2000);
}
Event.observe("target", "mouseover", listener);
On Nov 15, 9:09 am, Gregory Seidman <gsslist
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 10:08:22AM +0100, Jean-Philippe Encausse wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > Is there a way to bind an Event on Mouse Waiting for a given time
> > anywhere in the page ?
>
> > I mean:
> > the mouse move, stop, move, stop, 2 seconds => Event, move, stop,
> > clic, move, stop, 2 seconds => Event, ...
>
> > I think it is possible to code this behavior with timeout
> > stoped/starts but it seems a bit complicated ...
> > Does anybody has already did that ?
>
> I don't know of any existing implementation, but it's an interesting idea.
> All you should need is to observe the various mouse events on the page and
> a timeout, as you said. Maybe something like:
>
> function(idleTime) {
> var currentTimeout = null;
> var fireIdle = function() {
> currentTimeout = null;
> $(document).fire('mouse:idle');
> };
> var resetTimeout = function() {
> if (currentTimeout) clearTimeout(currentTimeout);
> currentTimeout = setTimeout(fireIdle, idleTime);
> };
> $w('mouseDown mouseMove ...').each(function(evt) {
> Event.observe(document, evt, resetTimeout); });
>
> }(2000);
>
> I didn't bother putting all the mouse events in the list, I'm not 100%
> certain I'm using the fire() method properly, and I just coded it off the
> cuff with no testing, but there isn't much more to it. With that, all you
> need to do is observe document's mouse:idle synthetic event. Note that this
> depends on Prototype 1.6.
>
> > Regards,
> > Jp
>
> --Greg
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