Delay *bug*

[Gondza]

Ok so here is the bug. When i set the delay option to any integer when i go to the link where i've setted the boxover and move really quick away from it and stop right away, the boxover still appears

I hope you've understood me

And thank you for the great code

[lectrix]

Hi!

I just noticed the same problem over here... any solution/patch available?
i am using v 2.0 16th April 2006.

thanks a lot,
stefan.

[antman]

This is definitely a problem with the 'delay' option. Here's another user who describes it in a different way:

http://boxover.swazz.org/forum/make-...nt-t294-1.html

[Pol]

Hiyah,

I had this problem too. I've had a little look and come up with a patch. I hope I don't offend anyone by posting this, but a solution is always nice!

Basically, my thinking was that the delay had to be cancelled if the user mouseout'd the div. I noticed there was a similar part in the code which closed the popup box, so that was a good starting point.

Here are the changes you need to do to make the current version (version I have is v 2.0 16th April 2006) work:

At the top of the script you need to attach a "mouseout" event, so from line 6 it should now read:

if (typeof document.attachEvent!='undefined') {
   window.attachEvent('onload',init);
   document.attachEvent('onmousemove',moveMouse);
   document.attachEvent('onclick',checkMove);
   document.attachEvent('onmouseout',moveOut); }
else {
   window.addEventListener('load',init,false);
   document.addEventListener('mousemove',moveMouse,false);
   document.addEventListener('click',checkMove,false);
   document.addEventListener('mouseout',moveOut,false);
}

(don't know why there are spaces in the word 'false' - remove them if they are still there when you copy and paste)

then just above the "mouseMove" function (around line 192 after modification above) past in this:

function moveOut(e) {
	e?evt=e:evt=event;
	
	CSE=evt.target?evt.target:evt.srcElement;
	
	if (!CSE.hasbox) {
	   // Note we need to scan up DOM here, some elements like TR don't get triggered as srcElement
	   iElem=CSE;
	   while ((iElem.parentNode) && (!iElem.hasbox)) {
	      scanBO(iElem);
	      iElem=iElem.parentNode;
	   }	   
	}
	
	//Clear current timeout (if it exists) - should stop and delayed tooltips running
	if (ID!=null)
		clearTimeout(ID);
}

Not sure if it was all entriely needed, but it works for me!

Drop me a PM if you need help.

Finally, loving your work on an amazing JS widget Oliver!

Cheers!

[olly]

Hi everyone,

Thanks for the support and feedback you guys have given on everything. Someone emailed me a code snippet which fixes the problem, and I have incorporated this in the latest release, (2.1).

Sorry for my own delay in getting the fix out there - I have been very busy and had hardly any time to dedicate to BoxOver of late.

Let me know everything is 100%,

cheers!

[Gondza]

Oh my goood
Thank you sooo much olly!
The delay option is now working at 100% EFFICIENCY :P.

Brilliant ^^