This google groups is slow and I though that answer wasn't posted so I posted another after I got it working :)
On Aug 6, 2:10 am, Karl Swedberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have a look at this demo page: > > http://book.learningjquery.com/2509_10_code/iplugin.html > > Click the "Extended Animate" heading, and then press the "Trigger" > button that appears to see the box animate from black on white to > white on black (and other stuff). > > Hope that helps. > > --Karl > _________________ > Karl Swedbergwww.englishrules.comwww.learningjquery.com > > On Aug 5, 2007, at 12:47 PM, Nazgulled wrote: > > > > > Well, I've been reading about Interface yesterday but I think it's too > > confusing for me and I have no clue how to use the animate() method > > and than, how would I choose 2 colors to fade from and to? I have no > > idea how to do that... > > > However, I found this jQuery plugin:http://www.mathias-bank.de/ > > jQuery/jquery.colorGradient.js > > Which doesn't do exactly what I want, but has a set of methods > > implemented to calculate color gradients and returning it in an array, > > I just need to implement methods to change the color using that array. > > > Here's my noob try. The following code was added to the plugin above: > > sleep: function(timeout) { > > var loop = true; > > var current = new Date(); > > var now; > > var cTimestamp = current.getTime(); > > > while(loop) { > > now = new Date(); > > nTimestamp = now.getTime(); > > > if(nTimestamp - cTimestamp > timeout) { > > loop = false; > > } > > } > > } > > > fadeColor: function(startColor, endColor, type, cssTag, step) { > > var color = jQuery.calculateColor(startColor, endColor, {"count": > > step, "type":type}); > > > for (var i = 0; i < step; i++) { > > $(this).css(cssTag, color[i]); > > jQuery.sleep(1000); > > } > > } > > > Than, I have this code on the readyevent: > > $('div#content a').each(function() { > > $(this).mouseover(function() { > > $(this).fadeColor('#ff0000', '#00ff00', [1,1,1], "color", 3); > > }); > > }); > > > So, as you see the step is 3, which means, it will take one second to > > change from the first color to the second and another second to change > > from the second color to the third. However, with this code, it will > > take 3 seconds to change from the first color to the last, it won't > > show the first color nor the second. It will go straight to the last > > color. I know I'm doing something wrong cause I'm really a newbie at > > jQuery/JavaScript. > > > I believe this plugin is enough for what I want to do, I just need to > > know how to adapt it to my needs. I didn't want to use Interface, > > unless I really need to, cause it's a bit confusing with all it's > > plugins and such. For now, it would be great if someone could help me > > out use tis colorGradient plugin to adapt it to my needs.
