Wednesday, June 24, 2009

How to add the Glitter Effect Mouse Pointer to your Blog

The code for this tweak is javascript. All you need to do is to add the javascript code to your template but only within the head (<head></head>) tag.

The Head Tag


The head tag begins with this tag: <head> and ends with this tag: </head>. Go to Layout->Edit HTML.



Locate for end head tag (</head>) and paste your javascript code above it, then save.




The Code:


<script type="text/javascript">
// <![CDATA[
var colour="#666666";
var sparkles=40;

var x=ox=400;
var y=oy=300;
var swide=800;
var shigh=600;
var sleft=sdown=0;
var tiny=new Array();
var star=new Array();
var starv=new Array();
var starx=new Array();
var stary=new Array();
var tinyx=new Array();
var tinyy=new Array();
var tinyv=new Array();
window.onload=function() { if (document.getElementById) {
var i, rats, rlef, rdow;
for (var i=0; i<sparkles; i++) {
var rats=createDiv(3, 3);
rats.style.visibility="hidden";
document.body.appendChild(tiny[i]=rats);
starv[i]=0;
tinyv[i]=0;
var rats=createDiv(5, 5);
rats.style.backgroundColor="transparent";
rats.style.visibility="hidden";
var rlef=createDiv(1, 5);
var rdow=createDiv(5, 1);
rats.appendChild(rlef);
rats.appendChild(rdow);
rlef.style.top="2px";
rlef.style.left="0px";
rdow.style.top="0px";
rdow.style.left="2px";
document.body.appendChild(star[i]=rats);
}
set_width();
sparkle();
}}
function sparkle() {
var c;
if (x!=ox || y!=oy) {
ox=x;
oy=y;
for (c=0; c<sparkles; c++) if (!starv[c]) {
star[c].style.left=(starx[c]=x)+"px";
star[c].style.top=(stary[c]=y)+"px";
star[c].style.clip="rect(0px, 5px, 5px, 0px)";
star[c].style.visibility="visible";
starv[c]=50;
break;
}
}
for (c=0; c<sparkles; c++) {
if (starv[c]) update_star(c);
if (tinyv[c]) update_tiny(c);
}
setTimeout("sparkle()", 40);
}
function update_star(i) {
if (--starv[i]==25) star[i].style.clip="rect(1px, 4px, 4px, 1px)";
if (starv[i]) {
stary[i]+=1+Math.random()*3;
if (stary[i]<shigh+sdown) {
star[i].style.top=stary[i]+"px";
starx[i]+=(i%5-2)/5;
star[i].style.left=starx[i]+"px";
}
else {
star[i].style.visibility="hidden";
starv[i]=0;
return;
}
}
else {
tinyv[i]=50;
tiny[i].style.top=(tinyy[i]=stary[i])+"px";
tiny[i].style.left=(tinyx[i]=starx[i])+"px";
tiny[i].style.width="2px";
tiny[i].style.height="2px";
star[i].style.visibility="hidden";
tiny[i].style.visibility="visible"
}
}
function update_tiny(i) {
if (--tinyv[i]==25) {
tiny[i].style.width="1px";
tiny[i].style.height="1px";
}
if (tinyv[i]) {
tinyy[i]+=1+Math.random()*3;
if (tinyy[i]<shigh+sdown) {
tiny[i].style.top=tinyy[i]+"px";
tinyx[i]+=(i%5-2)/5;
tiny[i].style.left=tinyx[i]+"px";
}
else {
tiny[i].style.visibility="hidden";
tinyv[i]=0;
return;
}
}
else tiny[i].style.visibility="hidden";
}
document.onmousemove=mouse;
function mouse(e) {
set_scroll();
y=(e)?e.pageY:event.y+sdown;
x=(e)?e.pageX:event.x+sleft;
}
function set_scroll() {
if (typeof(self.pageYOffset)=="number") {
sdown=self.pageYOffset;
sleft=self.pageXOffset;
}
else if (document.body.scrollTop || document.body.scrollLeft) {
sdown=document.body.scrollTop;
sleft=document.body.scrollLeft;
}
else if (document.documentElement && (document.documentElement.scrollTop || document.documentElement.scrollLeft)) {
sleft=document.documentElement.scrollLeft;
sdown=document.documentElement.scrollTop;
}
else {
sdown=0;
sleft=0;
}
}
window.onresize=set_width;
function set_width() {
if (typeof(self.innerWidth)=="number") {
swide=self.innerWidth;
shigh=self.innerHeight;
}
else if (document.documentElement && document.documentElement.clientWidth) {
swide=document.documentElement.clientWidth;
shigh=document.documentElement.clientHeight;
}
else if (document.body.clientWidth) {
swide=document.body.clientWidth;
shigh=document.body.clientHeight;
}
}
function createDiv(height, width) {
var div=document.createElement("div");
div.style.position="absolute";
div.style.height=height+"px";
div.style.width=width+"px";
div.style.overflow="hidden";
div.style.backgroundColor=colour;
return (div);
}
// ]]>
</script>

View Demo

Sunday, June 21, 2009

Glitter Effect Mouse Pointer: Falling Glitters From Your Mouse Pointer

While I was hopping from one blog to another, I happened to notice the pointer of one of the blogs I had visited. It is very interesting because as you move the mouse pointer there is a character, a plus sign, which falls like glitters on the screen. What's more interesting to this glitter effect is that the glitters fade away like a stardust on your blog.




I have already extracted the code from that blog and the next post will be how to add the glitter effect mouse pointer to your blog.
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