Question

I’m struggling to find an addon/plugin for this and its a key part of my project that ive overlooked and now its bitten me.

I need a variation of jQuery bounce which makes a div bounce around a parent div/wrapper indefinately.

Effectively I’ll be having a screen which users spawn div’s by clicking and they float/bounce around the screen.

please help direct me to a plugin or some code that will solve this issue for me.

many thanks

Answer 1

I can’t tell you how responsive this will be with a 100 divs, but based on the earlier script here’s something to get you at least started — http://jsfiddle.net/jgJsL/5/:

$.fn.bounce = function(options) {

    var settings = $.extend({
        speed: 10
    }, options);

    return $(this).each(function() {

        var $this = $(this),
            $parent = $this.parent(),
            height = $parent.height(),
            width = $parent.width(),
            top = Math.floor(Math.random() * (height / 2)) + height / 4,
            left = Math.floor(Math.random() * (width / 2)) + width / 4,
            vectorX = settings.speed * (Math.random() > 0.5 ? 1 : -1),
            vectorY = settings.speed * (Math.random() > 0.5 ? 1 : -1);

        // place initialy in a random location
        $this.css({
            'top': top,
            'left': left
        }).data('vector', {
            'x': vectorX,
            'y': vectorY
        });

        var move = function($e) {

            var offset = $e.offset(),
                width = $e.width(),
                height = $e.height(),
                vector = $e.data('vector'),
                $parent = $e.parent();

            if (offset.left <= 0 && vector.x < 0) {
                vector.x = -1 * vector.x;
            }
            if ((offset.left + width) >= $parent.width()) {
                vector.x = -1 * vector.x;
            }
            if (offset.top <= 0 && vector.y < 0) {
                vector.y = -1 * vector.y;
            }
            if ((offset.top + height) >= $parent.height()) {
                vector.y = -1 * vector.y;
            }

            $e.css({
                'top': offset.top + vector.y + 'px',
                'left': offset.left + vector.x + 'px'
            }).data('vector', {
                'x': vector.x,
                'y': vector.y
            });

            setTimeout(function() {
                move($e);
            }, 50);

        };

        move($this);
    });

};

$(function() {
    $('#wrapper li').bounce({
        'speed': 7
    });
});