I've already posted on this topic before, but I really am gettign quite desperate as the project deadline looms and I still don't have a solution.
I need several animations to happen, but I need them to happen in sequence rather than all at once (first animation: hide unselected items. Second animation: Move visible items to new locations to occupy space taken by unselected items/make space for currently hidden selected items. Third animation: Reveal currently hidden selected items). I tried using the callback method, but this has a serious drawback for my purposes, in that if one of the animations in the chain doesn't occur (because no items were unselected but some new ones were selected, for example) then all subsequent animations don't occur either. If a jQuery selector returns 0 results then applied effects aren't executed. What I need is some code that will ececute my animations one after the other, but which doesn't depend on all animations in the chain being triggered for the subsequent animations to play. Is there a plugin for doing this? Or is it slated as a new feature for jQuery? Or has anyone else come up with a solution to the problem? Sorry to keep asking this but like I said, it's getting pretty urgent.
