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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