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Simple Mouse Trail using VB Script
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| Article by: |  Jeff Anderson ( 1362 ) (2/10/2003) |
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| Summary: | With IE gaining in prominence every day, it's becoming acceptable to use VBScript in web pages. That makes some activities like the mouse trail a real cinch. |
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Simple Mouse Trail using VB Script
Whatever you want, even
images:
Following the cursor is really very easy in VB script. Simply set up a span tag with an id of, say 'my_stuff' then use the built in IE subroutine document_onMouseMove to set the absolute position of the span. You can adjust the amount to get it just where you want in relation to the cursor. What could be easier?
As an adjunct to this, if you move the cursor around on this page you will see that the trailing text attempts to adjust itself to fit - try pushing it up against the right margin for example.
One final word of warning, if your page scrolls down (as this one does) you will lose the mouse trail. To keep it we would need to take account of the document.body.scrollTop position - but that's for another time.
For now, enjoy the simplicity of this little script.
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Posted by :
 Archive Import (Laurence) at 14:39 on Sunday, February 23, 2003
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Great. I have been looking for a simple code for hours now. I found some fancy stuff with incredible trailers ... but there was no way to get a very simple code for a dynamic effect to combine with an onmouse event of my making. Thank you.
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Posted by :
Archive Import (Anifalaje Adetunji) at 05:35 on Monday, February 24, 2003
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this is what i have been looking for. it is very nice.
please can you please help me to do a mouse trail effect for my webpage?
please just use it and mail me but using my email address and let the trail effect be
" WELCOME TO ANIFALAJE ADETUNJI"S WEBSITE"
thanks
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Posted by :
Archive Import (Herb Aurand) at 09:57 on Friday, May 09, 2003
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This is very good but I do have one question. How do I put this into my web site and only have it on the "home" page. Also can I ad text to it. Please help.
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Posted by :
Archive Import (can't say) at 03:22 on Wednesday, September 10, 2003
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Well.. You know I wanted o know wether you ever got ones that changed the mouse to a picture of say.. a cat and it stayed like that..??? anyway... just wondering.. thanks
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Simple Mouse Trail using VB Script
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