Thanks for the answer. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to want to play well with the plugin and I didn't want to have to do significant changes.
The plugin I'm using is jquery.scrollable.js. Anyone know of a nice scrolling plugin that already has built in to it the ability to continue scrolling when hovering over the "next" nav item? All the scrolling plugins I find use either timers or clicks. I haven't dug into all their code yet; I don't mind doing minor changes to the plugin. The keyword here being: Minor. (couple of lines) On Aug 29, 5:32 pm, micah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > one way to approach what you're trying to do is with a simple > setInterval (http://developer.mozilla.org/index.php?title=En/DOM/ > Window.setInterval), so that the parser has a bit of breathing room > between calls to someFunc. > > if you just loop through, you're essentially saying "call someFunc as > many times as you can, as fast as you can possibly call it", which > isn't really cpu-friendly ;) > > try this instead: > > var int = null; > $('#element').hover(function() { > int = setInterval(someFunc, 100);}, function() { > > clearInterval(int); > > }); > > -micah > > On Aug 29, 2:00 pm, Leanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hey guys. > > > I've poured over the docs, and mouseover/hover/etc only trigger once. > > I want it to continue to trigger a function while the element is > > hovered. > > > I've tried: > > > $('#element').hover(function() { > > while(true) { > > someFunc; > > } > > > }, function() {}); > > > Unfortunately, this screws things up. The while loop hangs the > > browser for a while before it finally throws the "this script has been > > running too long" message. > > > I've tried looking at some of the scrolling plugins to see how they do > > it but the only one I can find that seems to have this functionality > > (do something while hovering over an element, in this case, continue > > scrolling) has no documentation, and the examples do not explain how > > to use the plugin, they merely show it working. What little bit of > > text is on the page is non-english and from the looks of it is little > > more than headers anyway, so useless even if I translated it. > > > So, how should I go about continuing to trigger someFunc while I'm > > hovered over a particular item on the page?