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Magic Words lets you effortlessly react to "magic" key sequences on your web page.
/* Note! Requires jQuery right now :( */
var MagicWords = {
spoken: [],
data: undefined,
init: function(d) {
MagicWords.data = d;
MagicWords.longest = 0;
for(var i in MagicWords.data) {
if (typeof MagicWords.data[i].words == 'string' || MagicWords.data[i].words instanceof String) {
var x = [];
for(var j in MagicWords.data[i].words)
x[j] = MagicWords.data[i].words.charCodeAt(j);
MagicWords.data[i].words = x;
}
MagicWords.longest = Math.max(MagicWords.longest, MagicWords.data[i].words.length);
}
var i = MagicWords.longest
while(i-->0)
MagicWords.spoken.push(-1);
$(document).on("keypress", MagicWords.do_press);
$(document).on("keydown", MagicWords.do_down);
},
do_press: function(e) {
if(e.charCode>0)
MagicWords.do_the_do(e.charCode);
},
do_down: function (e) {
if(e.keyCode == 9 || // Tab
(e.keyCode >=37 && e.keyCode <= 40) // Arrow keys
)
MagicWords.do_the_do(e.keyCode);
},
do_the_do: function(n) {
MagicWords.spoken.push(n);
while(MagicWords.spoken.length>MagicWords.longest)
MagicWords.spoken.shift();
var wordWasSpoken = MagicWords.spoken.join(',');
for(var i in MagicWords.data) {
var wordToTest = MagicWords.data[i].words.join(',');
var loc = wordWasSpoken.indexOf(wordToTest);
var loc_want = wordWasSpoken.length-wordToTest.length;
if(loc>-1 && loc == loc_want)
{
MagicWords.data[i].magic();
}
}
}
}
/********* Examples *********/
MagicWords.init([{
words: "the googs",
magic: function() { window.location.href = 'http://google.com'; }
}]);
MagicWords.init([{
words: [38, 38, 40, 40, 37, 39, 37, 39, 66, 65],
magic: function() { alert('Everyone loves the Konami Code!') }
}]);
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