Rails spinoffs - Oct 2005 - using events...

Hey there, I am not all that familiar with using events so I was  
hoping someone on this list would be willing to enlighten me, a bit..

I have set up an observer on a div called "scalebar", that seems to  
work well.

         Event.observe(''scalebar'', ''click'',
function(){ alert
(''clicked me at'') });

What I want to do is get the mouse position ether relative to the  
window, or even better to the "scalebar" div...

I see there are pointerX(event) and pointerY(event) functions in  
prototype, but cant for the life of me figure out how to use them to  
get the info I am looking for.

Thanks!
______________________________________________________________________
Alex Duffield . Principal . InControl Solutions . http:// 
www.incontrolsolutions.com



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My thanks go out to http://www.quirksmode.org!!

Event.observe(''scalebar'', ''click'',
function(e){  alert(Event.pointerX
(e)) });


______________________________________________________________________
Alex Duffield . Principal . InControl Solutions . http:// 
www.incontrolsolutions.com



On 3-Oct-05, at 8:16 PM, Alex Duffield wrote:
> Hey there, I am not all that familiar with using events so I was  
> hoping someone on this list would be willing to enlighten me, a bit..
>
> I have set up an observer on a div called "scalebar", that seems
to
> work well.
>
>         Event.observe(''scalebar'',
''click'', function(){ alert
> (''clicked me at'') });
>
> What I want to do is get the mouse position ether relative to the  
> window, or even better to the "scalebar" div...
>
> I see there are pointerX(event) and pointerY(event) functions in  
> prototype, but cant for the life of me figure out how to use them  
> to get the info I am looking for.
>
> Thanks!
> ______________________________________________________________________
> Alex Duffield . Principal . InControl Solutions . http:// 
> www.incontrolsolutions.com
>
>
>
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