Dojo not thread safe

[skoobi@…]

Hi,

unless I use the API in an incorrect way (which would mean the demo also use the API incorrectly..), it looks like there is a thread safe problem with animations...

consider the following code : function flashElementEventHandler(evt)

{

elementName = evt.target.getAttribute("id"); fadeOutAnim = dojo.lfx.html.fadeOut(elementName, 250); dojo.event.connect(fadeOutAnim, "onEnd", function(e) {

fadeInAnim = dojo.lfx.html.fadeIn(elementName, 250); fadeInAnim.play();

}); fadeOutAnim.play();

}

and this function would be registed as events for a few items : dojo.event.connect(dojo.byId('header-link-home'), 'onmouseover', flashElementEventHandler);

dojo.event.connect(dojo.byId('header-link-help'), 'onmouseover', flashElementEventHandler); dojo.event.connect(dojo.byId('header-link-screenshots'), 'onmouseover', flashElementEventHandler);

when you onMouseOver quickly over a few of these items, the animation on the first item stops to let the 2nd item animate itself...

So, my first (beginner) guess is that there is a thread safe problem, but it may be somethign completly unrelated, since I haven't looked at dojo code...

[dylan]

not sure if we have a reasonable answer here...

[alex]

this is not a thread safety issue, you're just invoking multiple animations at once. Marking "wontfix"