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JavaScript jQuery Basics (2014) Creating a Simple Drawing Application More Mouse Events

Posted by Nyron Telemaque
Nyron Telemaque
1,987 Points

Perfecting the drawing app

Instead of firing the mouseup event you can just set the mouse down to false.. so mouseleave(function(){ mouseDown = false; });

1 Answer

Andrew Chalkley
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Andrew Chalkley
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Andrew Chalkley
Andrew Chalkley
Treehouse Guest Teacher

You could do that, but imagine if the code got more complicated when you finish drawing. It may be simple to change mouseDown = x in two places right now but it could get hairy.

Maybe you could have a function called finishDrawing()...

function finishDrawing(){
  mouseDown = false;
}

...

.mouseup(finishDrawing).mouseleave(finishDrawing);

Then you only have to edit the code in one place. I just wanted to illustrate triggering an event in the video :)

Regards
Andrew