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flick


jFlick

Submitted by stevegough on April 14, 2010 - 8:01pm

jFlick is a jQuery extension that captures the flick/swipe gestures for Droids/iPhones/etc and lets you write custom handlers to deal with them. By default the X-axis is evaluated, with a threshold of 15 pixels to a swipe, and just returns true if a flick is detected. The threshold of 15 will capture almost everything as a flick except a stationary tap.

Parameters

The only method is detectFlicks and it will accept these override values:

  • axis: x or y
  • threshold: some positive number
  • flickEvent: any function

For the flickEvent, the data object passed to it will contain the variable ''direction'' which is a string detailing which direction the flick was in.

Example


$('div#flickable')
.detectFlicks({
axis: 'y',
threshold: 60,
flickEvent: function(d) { alert('flick detected: ' + d.direction);