howto: monitor mousedown event

[cc]

Hey everyone,

I've created a little control that scrolls a <div> area. Basically, it is a
couple arrows, one points to the right, the other to the left. I've placed
an onClick event handler on the <img> tags (arrows), and I've gotten it to
work. What I would like to be able to do, is let the user click and hold the
mouse button down, and have the <div> plane continuously scroll (just like
any scrolling control). Something like:

while (mouseButtonIsDown)
{
scrollTableInCorrectDirection
}

Thanks

[cc]

so basically, how would I check that a user's mouse is still being held down

while (mouseButtonIsDown) { ... }

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Hey everyone,

I've created a little control that scrolls a <div> area. Basically, it is a couple arrows, one points to the right, the other to the left. I've placed
an onClick event handler on the <img> tags (arrows), and I've gotten it to
work. What I would like to be able to do, is let the user click and hold the mouse button down, and have the <div> plane continuously scroll (just like
any scrolling control). Something like:

while (mouseButtonIsDown)
{
scrollTableInCorrectDirection
}

Thanks

[Randy Webb]

cc wrote:

so basically, how would I check that a user's mouse is still being held down

while (mouseButtonIsDown) { ... }

onmousedown = scrollIt
onmouseup = stopIt

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