Hi
I have an application that draws a selection rectangle over a map
image. I can get it to work fine in IE and Opera, but not
Firefox/Netscape.
I've thrown the following small example together to illustrate the
problem - the problem being that FF/NE initially draw my rectangle
before the icon changes immediately to the black no-entry icon. Then,
when I let go of the mouse, the rectangle continues drawing, but it
doesn't stop as the mouseup has already fired of course.
IE was doing the same, but I found the ondragstart/cancelDragDrop
solution to that. I can't find what appears to be a similar solution
for FF/NE.
Any advice very gratefully received! Hair is fading fast :)
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<META http-equiv=imagetool bar content=no>
<TITLE>
</TITLE>
<STYLE>
#rubberBand {
position: absolute;
visibility: hidden;
width: 0px; height: 0px;
border: 2px dashed red;
}
</STYLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<img name="myImage" id="myImage" src="myimage.gi f" height=400
width=400>
<DIV ID="rubberBand" ></DIV>
<SCRIPT>
var IMG;
function startRubber (evt) {
if (document.all) {
// IE
var r = document.all.ru bberBand;
r.style.width = 0;
r.style.height = 0;
r.style.pixelLe ft = event.x;
r.style.pixelTo p = event.y;
r.style.visibil ity = 'visible';
IMG.ondragstart = cancelDragDrop; // otherwise IE will try to drag
the image
}
else if (document.getEl ementById) {
// firefox
var r = document.getEle mentById('rubbe rBand');
r.style.width = 0;
r.style.height = 0;
r.style.left = evt.clientX + 'px';
r.style.top = evt.clientY + 'px';
r.style.visibil ity = 'visible';
}
IMG.onmousemove = moveRubber;
}
function moveRubber (evt) {
if (document.all) { // IE
var r = document.all.ru bberBand;
r.style.width = event.x - r.style.pixelLe ft;
r.style.height = event.y - r.style.pixelTo p;
}
else if (document.getEl ementById) { // firefox
var r = document.getEle mentById('rubbe rBand');
r.style.width = evt.clientX - parseInt(r.styl e.left);
r.style.height = evt.clientY - parseInt(r.styl e.top);
}
return false; // otherwise IE won't fire mouseup :/
}
function stopRubber (evt) {
IMG.onmousemove = null;
}
function cancelDragDrop( )
{
window.event.re turnValue = false;
}
IMG = document.getEle mentById('myIma ge');
IMG.onmousedown = startRubber;
IMG.onmouseup = stopRubber;
</SCRIPT>
</BODY>
</HTML>
