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http://www.twistedport.com/misc/circlepath/circle.html

I wrote this script and wanted to expand it... but I''m getting an error ("Object Required") on these lines:

//mouseX = event.x;

	//mousey = event.y;

Seems pretty straight foward to me.... what's up?


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event.x refers to the x position of the object that called it (or something similar). therefore, uncommented, when you first move your mouse, the 2 lines will execute and you will have your values, but when the setTimeout() calls it, the event does not have an x position, it is called in the script, hence there is no object to give it x and y values

Go to kimber-ja.demon.co.uk and click on the link to the raytracer!

If you wanted to center it around the mouse, you could use a simple mouse handler function and set some global variables for reference there.


var x,y;

document.onmousemove = mmH;

function mmH(e) {
// set X and Y to mouse coords
x = e.left | | event.clientX;
y = e.top | | event.clientY;
}

Something to that effect, anyways.