I'll go for the last option ("recommend an idiom I can implement
myself that will avoid the weird cases").It sounds like you're trying to make your page behave like a desktop app. Don't. One (significant) reason is that by focusing on enter/leave, you're automatically dropping support for mobile browsers. Simply do a pushbutton toggle instead. If there's a click, open it up. If a second click not in the popup, hide. This can still fail in mobile, depending on how it's implemented. (sometimes a popup is on the page, but not on he screen, and scrolling/resizing to find it closes it. Infuriating.) Even better: find a way to expose the information without a popup, such as a slide down reveal or cover flow or some such. (Without knowing your context, it's hard to make good recommendations.) Bottom line: stay away from enter/leave unless you really, really need to. It's not a technical answer, but I hope it is a practical one. TAG On Jul 11, 2:45 pm, Shane McCarron <halindr...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have a menu of operations (shown as icons) that I want to reveal when the > user move their mouse over a region. Prototype's event handling + > scriptaculous gives me great ways to do this. However, I want to menu (a > floating div) to disappear when: > > 1. Some time has elapsed and the user never moved into the menu. > 2. The user moves into the menu and then moves out of it. > 3. The user selects an item in the menu. > > These all seem pretty easy to accomplish, but I keep running into weird edge > conditions. Like if the user exposes the menu, moves the cursor into the > menu, and then minimizes all the windows on the screen (Windows-D), then > reveals the browser window... in my implementation the menu is still down > even though it no longer has focus! > > It occurs to me that this is most likely a solved problem. Probably solved > over and over and over. So... can anyone recommend a simple solution that > will just handle all these edge conditions for me? Or recommend an idiom I > can implement myself that will avoid the weird cases? > > Thanks! > > -- > Shane McCarron > halindr...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prototype & script.aculo.us" group. To post to this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous?hl=en.
