[jQuery] Re: BlockUI: Strange flickering behavior.

2008-05-22 Thread Abba . Bryant
The point is that your calling a interface blocking plugin to do something as simple as a hover effect. The plugin intercepts events on elements behind the blocking overlay to prevent interaction with the blocked portion of the page amongst other things. You don't need or even want that behavior.

[jQuery] Re: BlockUI: Strange flickering behavior.

2008-05-22 Thread Chris Jordan
Thanks Abba. I'm using it because it's convenient. I don't have to worry about anything. I just call it. If it does a little more, I'm not real worried about it. Also, once the thumbnail is clicked on, I'm using blockUI again to display the larger image. Chris On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 6:46 PM, <[E

[jQuery] Re: BlockUI: Strange flickering behavior.

2008-05-21 Thread Abba . Bryant
I have to point out that the blockUI plugin is overkill if all you want to do is fade the image and display a caption over it. If you gave each thumbnail a javascript created div inside the link and set to a 0 opacity with a white bg and then simply increased the opacity on hover-over, and decreas

[jQuery] Re: BlockUI: Strange flickering behavior.

2008-05-21 Thread Chris Jordan
I figured out what the hour glass is all about. I'm throwing up an overlay, and that puts up the hour glass automatically. if you hover over just the text in the middle, then there's no hour glass there. Thanks for everyone's help! Chris On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 11:45 AM, Chris Jordan <[EMAIL PRO

[jQuery] Re: BlockUI: Strange flickering behavior.

2008-05-21 Thread Chris Jordan
Hey, that's progress! I'm still getting the hour glass too, but the flicker is gone. It seemed before like the constantly being blocked and unblocked in rapid succession. Now, it looks just right, except that I don't like the hour glass. But I think I can show it to my client like this. Any furthe

[jQuery] Re: BlockUI: Strange flickering behavior.

2008-05-21 Thread Chris Jordan
Michael, I'll try this. Thanks so much. On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 11:21 AM, Michael Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Chris Jordan wrote: > >> Just to clarify, in order to see the problem (especially in FF -- it looks >> a little different in IE) mouse over one of the thumbnails in the center of

[jQuery] Re: BlockUI: Strange flickering behavior.

2008-05-21 Thread Michael Price
Chris Jordan wrote: Just to clarify, in order to see the problem (especially in FF -- it looks a little different in IE) mouse over one of the thumbnails in the center of the page, and then leave the mouse there. You don't have to do any further movement of the mouse to see the problem happeni

[jQuery] Re: BlockUI: Strange flickering behavior.

2008-05-21 Thread Chris Jordan
Just to clarify, in order to see the problem (especially in FF -- it looks a little different in IE) mouse over one of the thumbnails in the center of the page, and then leave the mouse there. You don't have to do any further movement of the mouse to see the problem happening. Thanks everyone. I r

[jQuery] Re: BlockUI: Strange flickering behavior.

2008-05-21 Thread Chris Jordan
That didn't fix the flickering problem. :o( Can anyone help? http://rock-itnaturalstone.com/dev/ThinVeneer.php Chris On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 11:10 AM, Chris Jordan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mike, thanks for your suggestion. I'll give that a shot and let report > back. :o) > > Chris > > >

[jQuery] Re: BlockUI: Strange flickering behavior.

2008-05-21 Thread Chris Jordan
Mike, thanks for your suggestion. I'll give that a shot and let report back. :o) Chris On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 9:11 PM, Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > http://rock-itnaturalstone.com/dev/ThinVeneer.php > > > > Just hover over some of the stone samples to see what it's doing. It's > > drivi

[jQuery] Re: BlockUI: Strange flickering behavior.

2008-05-20 Thread Mike
> http://rock-itnaturalstone.com/dev/ThinVeneer.php > > Just hover over some of the stone samples to see what it's doing. It's > driving me crazy. It's almost as if the mouseover even fires constantly > while the mouse is hovered over the element, rather than just firing once. > Any thoughts? > >