Comments on: MooTools Typewriter Effect Plugin

By: Doney

Doney — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 14:13:33 +0000

Great script! Can you tell me how I can use a chain on this script? I want another script to be executed when the typewriter finishes. Thanks in advance!

By: Motyar

Motyar — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 03:52:31 +0000

See same effect with Jquery http://motyar.blogspot.com/2009/12/cmd-and-typewriter-effect-with-jquery.html

By: James Radford

James Radford — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 10:46:00 +0000

Nice article but I think it needs to support rich format really… I.e. allow the text to have html tags within it so people can type out text that becomes a hyperlink. Admittedly could attach an event within the panel that loads the content, i.e. change the cursor to a hand, and even addClass to the text so it behaves like a normal hyperlink but I’m wondering whether or not that’s the best approach? Probably is, just a thought…

By: Rashy

Rashy — Sat, 23 May 2009 07:59:48 +0000

Hey David,

Can you make a jQuery version of this plugin too ? Can you also add an option to add a arbitary text like “_” (Underscore) to the effect and delete it when the effect finishes. Eg:

T_
Te_
Tes_
Test

By: david

david — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 13:46:50 +0000

You would change the usage code to only fire on the click event.

By: Phil

Phil — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 11:38:43 +0000

Javascript newbie here. How would I make this start from an onClick instead.

By: sam

sam — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:36:20 +0000

Hi is there a way to have a few of these on one page each starting with an onclick

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 04:07:16 +0000

Hey David,

I was excited to find your Typewriter class. However, I’m using mootools 1.1 and receive the following error when I try to use it:

this.options.container.get is not a function

Any idea why? I assume it’s a version issue. Is it possible to tweak the class slightly to work with 1.1? I prefer not to deal with using 1.2; doing so breaks a lot of other script.

Thanks,
Greg

By: Veneficus Unus

Veneficus Unus — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 21:55:12 +0000

Hey,

I saw that you had used trackbacked me and thought I’d see what was going on.

Awesome stuff. I’m glad that my code inspired you, and even across two different javascript frameworks. I was looking at the blinking underscore idea as someone else suggested and I actually finished doing it but never though that it was a feature anybody wanted. Guess I was wrong.

Again thanks for the trackback and good luck with you Mootools class. :-)

By: Shane

Shane — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:53:18 +0000

Hi David,

good work.

My suggestions:

Multiple messsges.
Leading character (as seen on http://www.bbc.co.uk/news ticker)

Hmm… not sure about rborn’s random mistype addition – from a user’s point of view I can see that being quite annoying.

Still – I guess implementers don’t have to use that feature ;)