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DHTML Echoing Cursor Trail

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Jeff Anderson ( 1362 ) (3/31/2002)

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Summary:

This mouse trail creates an 'echo' of the mouse pointer as you move around the screen.

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To acheive the effect, firstly copy the two images below into the same directory as the script itself will be in. (The one on the left is a blank image, so we've put a border round it so you can find it!!)

Now simply paste the script below into your page just after the body tag:

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<script language="javascript">
 
arrImages=new Array("trail1.gif", 28, 33, "trail1.gif", 28, 33,"trail1.gif" ,28 , 33 ,"trail1.gif" ,28 ,33 ,"trail1.gif",28 ,33 ,"sp.gif" ,28 ,33)
noImages=6;
var speed=100;
var addleftscroll=0;
var addtopscroll=0;

for (i=0;i<noImages;i++){
createDynLayer("CUR"+i,i*10,i*10,i*3+1,i*3+2,"","<img src='"+arrImages[i*3]+"' width="+arrImages[(i*3+1)]+" height="+arrImages[(i*3+2)]+" border=0>")}

function createDynLayer(idName,XCoord,YCoord,sWidth,sHeight,aaa,hhh,oo,ns){
    with (document){
    write((!document.all) ? "<layer id='"+idName+"' left="+XCoord+" top="+YCoord+" width="+sWidth+" height="+sHeight : "<div id='"+idName+"'"+" style='position:absolute;left:"+XCoord+"; top:"+YCoord+"; width:"+sWidth+"; height:"+sHeight+"; ");
    if(ns){
        if (document.layers)
        write(" style='");
        write(ns+";' ")
    }
    else write((document.all)?"'":"");
        write((aaa)? aaa+">" : ">");
        write((hhh) ? hhh : "");
        if (!oo)
        deleteDynLayer(idName)
    }
}

function deleteDynLayer(){
    document.write((document.all)?"</div>":"</layer>")
}

function getXpos(N){
    return (document.all) ? parseInt(document.all[N].style.left) : document.layers[N].left
}

function getYpos(N){
    return (document.all) ? parseInt(document.all[N].style.top) : document.layers[N].top
}

function moveDynLayer(idName,Xpos,Ypos){
    createit=(document.all) ? document.all[idName].style :document.layers[idName];createit.left=Xpos;createit.top=Ypos
}

function newPos(e){
moveDynLayer("CUR"+(noImages-1),(document.all)?event.clientX+addleftscroll:e.pageX+2,(document.all)?event.clientY+addtopscroll:e.pageY+2
)
}


function doAgain(){
//if (IE5) 
if (document.all&&window.print){
addleftscroll=document.body.scrollLeft;
addtopscroll=document.body.scrollTop;
}
for (i=0;i<(noImages-1);i++){
moveDynLayer("CUR"+i,getXpos("CUR"+(i+1)),getYpos("CUR"+(i+1)))
}
}


if(document.layers)
document.captureEvents(Event.MOUSEMOVE)
document.onmousemove=newPos
setInterval("doAgain()",speed)
</script>

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Posted by : Archive Import (Benjamin Sunderland) at 20:42 on Tuesday, December 10, 2002

you can see your work at the pic link at: http://hometown.aol.com/bardelsaj/myhomepage/profile.html

Thanks again,
Ben

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