'close' does not work during 'open' animation

[stephanParticipant]

Hi,

At least that is my guess: it seems to me that calling ‘close’ while the ‘open’ animation is still ongoing will simply be ignored.

Here’s a simple fiddle showing the problem:
http://jsfiddle.net/_stephan_/TW79Z/3/

In the fiddle there is no delay in between, but in my real app there actually is a short delay and event then it does not work.

My real use case is this: I have writte “onmouseenter” and “onmouseleave” event handlers for my control and within these handlers i call “open” and “close” for the tooltip respectively. If I now move the mosue across the control very fast the tooltip will appear but will not disappear.

Regards,
Stephan

[Peter StoevKeymaster]

Hi Stephan,

You cannot close something which is still not opened. The “close” method should be used when the tooltip is already opened.

Best Regards,
Peter Stoev

jQWidgets Team
http://www.jqwidgets.com/

[stephanParticipant]

Hi Peter,

Well … you could close if right away despite its state. Animations can be aborted. Mainly I was hoping that you would understand the problem that results on the application side: If at the point in time where you definitely want to close the tooltip you do not know whether it has finished opening or not, it becomes difficult to actually close it …

But I have now worked around the problem by reducing the times for opening and closing snimation. An alternative might have been to put the “close” call into a “setTimeout()”, but I didnt want to go down that route.

Regards,
stephan

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