Alright, that's pretty much exactly what I had in mind, thanks a bunch.

On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 6:19 PM, James <james.gp....@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Then you can do something like this:
>
> Have a setTimeout (say, executes in 20 seconds) with a callback
> function, say "moveToLocation".
>
> Then you need a way to find out whether the div has been scrolled to
> the certain location or not. That can be done by checking either for
> the user's top/left coordinate of their screen, or you can set a
> variable when the user clicks on that "button".
>
> After the 20 seconds comes by and the moveToLocation function is
> called, it checks for that location (or some variable you set). If
> it's true (meaning, the user has scrolled to the certain location),
> then do nothing. Otherwise, do the auto-scroll.
>
> The idea is that the moveToLocation is called no matter what. It's
> just that whether you do the actual action or not depends on the state
> of things.
>
>
> On Aug 6, 12:09 pm, Simon Vansintjan <svansint...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Well, it's pretty theoretical at the moment, so there's no code down, but
> > the idea would be that a div appears, and that the user can click on a
> > button that would scroll the div to a certain location. However, if the
> user
> > doesn't click, I would still want the div to move to that location (in
> case
> > he/she doesn't get it that it would move, dunno).
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 6:03 PM, James <james.gp....@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Use the setTimeout/setInterval functions with some kind of global
> > > counter. If some kind of action/event occurs, the counter would be
> > > refreshed and the function would not execute.
> > > Would you like to specify in more detail what you would like to
> > > achieve?
> >
> > > On Aug 6, 11:43 am, Simon <svansint...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Hey,
> >
> > > > After a user hasn't triggered an event for a given amount of purple,
> > > > would it be possible to trigger that event anyway?
> >
> > > > I have no idea how to even start looking for this.
> >
> > > > Thanks for any hints/ideas/whatever you can throw my way.
> >
> > > > Simon
> >
> > --
> > simon.vansintjan.org
> >
>


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