Rails spinoffs - Jun 2005 - stage left and right effects

Here are two effects (with a common base) that perform a stage
left/right effect.  The effect is named after the Hanna Barbara
character Snagglepuss. :)  It shakes the contents briefly and then
jets off (stage) to the left or right.

I used the Shake effect as a guide to this one.  The StageBase accepts
the element and an "amount" to initially shake the element by.  So in
StageLeft''s case, it moves -20 left, 40 right and then -1000 left and
finally renders the element hidden.  The opposite holds for
StageRight.

Feel free to use it for whatever you like and any suggestions are welcome.

Andrew


  Effect2.StageBase = function(element, amount) {
    new Effect2.MoveBy(element, 0, amount,
      { duration: 0.05, afterFinish: function(effect) {
    new Effect2.MoveBy(effect.element, 0, -(amount*2),
      { duration: 0.05, afterFinish: function(effect) {
    new Effect2.MoveBy(effect.element, 0, amount < 0 ? -1000 : 1000,
      { duration: 0.5, afterFinish: function(effect) {
    new Element.hide(element);
    }}) }}) }});
  }

  Effect2.StageLeft = function(element) {
    new Effect2.StageBase(element, -20)
  }

  Effect2.StageRight = function(element) {
    new Effect2.StageBase(element, 20)
  }

Here''s a link showing the two effects that I mentioned earlier...
easier to show it then to describe it. :)

http://sample.redlinesoftware.com/effects.html

Andrew


On 6/27/05, Andrew Kaspick <akaspick@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Here are two effects (with a common base) that perform a stage
> left/right effect.  The effect is named after the Hanna Barbara
> character Snagglepuss. :)  It shakes the contents briefly and then
> jets off (stage) to the left or right.
> 
> I used the Shake effect as a guide to this one.  The StageBase accepts
> the element and an "amount" to initially shake the element by. 
So in
> StageLeft''s case, it moves -20 left, 40 right and then -1000 left
and
> finally renders the element hidden.  The opposite holds for
> StageRight.
> 
> Feel free to use it for whatever you like and any suggestions are welcome.
> 
> Andrew
> 
> 
>   Effect2.StageBase = function(element, amount) {
>     new Effect2.MoveBy(element, 0, amount,
>       { duration: 0.05, afterFinish: function(effect) {
>     new Effect2.MoveBy(effect.element, 0, -(amount*2),
>       { duration: 0.05, afterFinish: function(effect) {
>     new Effect2.MoveBy(effect.element, 0, amount < 0 ? -1000 : 1000,
>       { duration: 0.5, afterFinish: function(effect) {
>     new Element.hide(element);
>     }}) }}) }});
>   }
> 
>   Effect2.StageLeft = function(element) {
>     new Effect2.StageBase(element, -20)
>   }
> 
>   Effect2.StageRight = function(element) {
>     new Effect2.StageBase(element, 20)
>   }
>