I have an animation -- a box that flies in, waits a few seconds, and then flies out. I'm accomplishing that by calling the "flyout()" function in the onEnd handler of the "flyin" animation, and putting a delay property on the flyout anim. It's all working perfectly nicely.

Here's the problem: I want to be able to cancel the auto-flyout at any time during the delay (by mousing over the box), but anim2.pause() only works once the second animation has actually started playing, which is too late -- the user may have done the mouseover ages before that....

After trying unsuccesssfully for about a week to split a block of text into spans of words or letters, I finally followed the KISS rule and made something work. Originally, I was trying to recurse through every non-textNode and split the textNodes inside their parentNodes so any HTML inside the supplied node would remain intact. However, some HTML "features" (and lack of sleep) prevented all my attempts from providing me with what I thought would be a simple, robust, and efficient bit of magic.

Since this is supposed to be the "Midterm Evaluation Period" and "Coding Phase II" starts on Tuesday, I've been taking it easy this past week. However, I haven't completely stopped working on my project; there are two new effects. Nothing to spectacular, just a wipe version of the previous "shear" effect ("pinwheel" was the best name I could think of; suggestions are welcome), and an effect where pieces simply fade out. The demo page is here.

Since my last update, I've made the demo page more verbose and created a "shear" effect that, once again, splits the element into rows and/or columns and slides them in alternating directions, with an optional progressive or random delay between each piece's animation.

With the successful completion of the explode effect, I decided to build on the code used to split the node into pieces. I split the code in half and thus created a new generic function, dojox.fx._split that returns an animation object that splits the node into args.rows and args.columns and applies args.pieceAnimation() to each piece. This function takes the piece, its x and y location in the grid of pieces, and the dojo.coords of the original node as arguments and returns either an animation object or an array of animation objects to be combined.

I created a nice animation effect that splits the element into an arbitrary number of rows and columns, then sends them flying away from the element's center. The user can specify whether or not the pieces fade out as they move, and whether or not the distance and duration of each piece's animation should be randomized.

The effect is accomplished by cloning the node once for each piece and combining each piece's animation together. The original node's opacity is set to zero onPlay.

I am workin on a project for the university with fisheyeLite. I make an sortArray to sort an array alphabetically with onclick "abc". It works and sort the array but after that the animation from fisheye doesn't work matter. Can anybody help me? An also problem is that the animation doesnt work on MS Internet Explorer 8. Thanks a lot for your answers.

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