[jQuery] Stop animation work-around

[Lincoln Cooper]

I've written a small plug-in work-around for stopping animation - not very
pretty, but does the job while waiting for the 'official' version in jQuery
1.2.

I Would like some feedback (not too harsh please!).

The plug-in was inspired by the original 'easing' plug-in by George Smith
and goes like this:

// Modify fx function by converting first to a String
jQuery.fx = String(jQuery.fx).replace(RegExp("13\\);"), "13);if (
options.handle){ eval('window.'+options.handle+'=z.timer');}");

// make it a Function again
jQuery.fx = Function( "elem", "options", "prop", jQuery.fx.substring(
jQuery.fx.indexOf('{')+1, jQuery.fx.lastIndexOf('}')));


// Clear the Queue
$.fn.clearQueue = function(type) {
   return this.each(function(){
       type = type || "fx";
       if(this.queue && this.queue[type]) {
           this.queue[type].length = 0;
       }
   });
};


Then to use it you do something like this:


<script type="text/javascript">
window.aHandle=null;

function startAnimate() {
 $('#abc').animate({left:500}, { complete:function(){},
                                 duration:5000,
                                 easing:true,
                                 handle:'aHandle'}, 'easein');

}
function stopAnimate() {
 window.clearInterval(window.aHandle);
 $('#abc').clearQueue();
}
</script>


Lincoln.

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