Replay mouse movement with javascript

Question

I recently asked a question about mouse RECORDING. Now I need to figure out how to REPLAY it.

Recent question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8129723/record-mouse-movement-with-javascript

I will use PHP to make an identical copy of the current page, then I will insert the replay script in it. The script will add and move araound an absolut posisioned image acording to multiple x and y cordinates, in relation to time (to illustrate the mousemovement).

Are there any good methods (better then below) to replay mulitple mousemovements?

<input style="width:100%" type="text" name="onlyforstackoverflow1" value="0" size="4"><br>
<input style="width:100%" type="text" name="onlyforstackoverflow2" value="0" size="4">



<script>

// I want this (a very long array with x-cordinates, y-cordinates and time from pageload)

var very_long_array = [1,2,1000,2,22,2000,3,33,3645,4,44,3456];

// To become the same as this

setTimeout("document.Show.onlyforstackoverflow1.value = 1;document.Show.onlyforstackoverflow2.value = 11;",100)
setTimeout("document.Show.onlyforstackoverflow1.value = 2;document.Show.onlyforstackoverflow2.value = 22;",200)
setTimeout("document.Show.onlyforstackoverflow1.value = 3;document.Show.onlyforstackoverflow2.value = 33;",364)
setTimeout("document.Show.onlyforstackoverflow1.value = 4;document.Show.onlyforstackoverflow2.value = 44;",453)


// in the real script it will be moving around an image instead...

</script>

This is very useful for me...but I also want to integrate pause and resume functionality for replay. I have looked for it but answers are only available for setTimeout cases, not for setTimeout inside recursive function.So can you put some light on how to accomplish it.Thanks in advance — SkillsIndexOutOfBounds, Jul 10 '14 at 06:14

brookslee · Accepted Answer · 2011-11-15T02:49:24.560

var dataList = [ 1, 2, 1000, 2, 22, 2000 ], // the long big array 
    preTime = 0;

function run() {
    var parts = dataList.splice( 0, 3 ), // after splice, dataList will be auto updated
        nowTime;

    if ( parts.length ==  3 ) {
         nowTime = parts[ 2 ];

         setTimeout( function() {
             replay( parts[ 0 ], parts[ 1 ] ); // x = parts[ 0 ], y = parts[ 1 ]

             preTime = nowTime;
             // continue run next replay
             run();
         }, nowTime - preTime );
    } 
}

function replay( x, y ) {
    // do something with x, y;
    // document.Show.onlyforstackoverflow1.value = x;
    // document.Show.onlyforstackoverflow2.value = y;
}

// start
run();

Just use setTimeout to do the task, you needn't write every task as a statement :-)

This is very useful for me...but I also want to integrate pause and resume functionality for replay. I have looked for it but answers are only available for setTimeout cases, not for setTimeout inside recursive function.So can you put some light on how to accomplish it.Thanks in advance — SkillsIndexOutOfBounds, Jul 10 '14 at 06:12

Replay mouse movement with javascript

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