Tracking Mouse Stop
- by Hallik
I am trying to track mouse movements in the browser, and if a user stops their mouse for 0.5 seconds, to execute some code. I have put a breakpoint in the code below in firebug, and it breaks on the var mousestop = function(evt) line, but then jumps to the return statement. Am I missing something simple? Why isn't it executing the POST statement? I am tracking mouse clicks in a similar way, and it posts to the server just fine. Just not mouse stops.
$.fn.saveStops = function() {
$(this).bind('mousemove.clickmap', function(evt) {
var mousestop = function(evt) {
$.post('/heat-save.php', {
x:evt.pageX,
y:evt.pageY,
click:"false",
w:window.innerWidth,
h:window.innerHeight,
l:escape(document.location.pathname)
});
},
thread;
return function() {
clearTimeout(thread);
thread = setTimeout(mousestop, 500);
};
});
};
