IanD — Sat, 11 Dec 1999 06:00:00 +0000

This might be kinda stupid, but wouldn't it just be easier to convert the slide show into a screen saver? That would end when the mouse is moved, and would reactivate after X idle minutes. I'm sure theres some utilitie to convert a power point (or whatever) presentation to a screen saver...

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RC — Fri, 10 Dec 1999 12:59:00 +0000

Thanks to all for your replies.

OK. I had already tried onmouseover and it worked great, but it worked too great. I put onmouseover="relocate()" in body and it worked just fine. See the site that the relocate function jumps to has a countdown on it to restart the slideshow should there be inactivity. I.E. if a page is left up for 15 minutes without loading another page it launches the slideshow again. NOW....if the user left the mouse OVER the screen, it would automatically shoot back to the countdown page thus eliminating the slideshow altogether and becoming useless.

Argh.

Anyway, so I wanted to use mousemove to launch the countdown site. I have tried it with and without return also. So, thanks for your assistance, but I guess I'm just going to have to go with onmousedown because that seems to work.

Jack Michaelson — Fri, 10 Dec 1999 08:39:00 +0000

I've never heard of the OnMouseMove either, but there must be something like that.
see--> http://www.schaffhausen.de/

As you can see the picture moves when you move the mouse. If that is an OnMouseMove you can't find out as the JS is an external file. But it sure looks like one.

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I did some research and now I know the OnMousMove exist.
It is a standard eventhandler in MS Visual Interdev 6.0.
I do not understand why it would't work on your page, RC.
But I also do not understand why you use the return after:
top.location.href="http://iww.blah.com/a";

I think the return is not necessary for the script, but I'm not sure.

[This message has been edited by Jack Michaelson (edited 10 December 1999).]

Precisivee — Fri, 10 Dec 1999 04:34:00 +0000

RC,

I never heard of onmousemove before. Well, to have another javascript that works almost the same is mouseover. Not mousemove.

That's all. Thank you.

Regards,
Andrew Chen

Arielladog — Thu, 09 Dec 1999 22:36:00 +0000

I don't know much abou Javascript, at all, but I am trying to learn. I have never heard of the onmousemove command. It probably is one, but maybe you could us the onunload command since the page will automatically change to a new one in 10 seconds.