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Can you target an element by its dynamically changing opacity?

Through the use of a function in jQuery, along with my HTML & CSS, I have a series of different colored divs that change their opacity to appear as though the opaque div moves from left to right. I want the user to be able to click a red button to stop the animation on a square of his/her choosing. Right now I can get the animation to stop (albeit after it finishes its queued animations), but I am having trouble getting the square that has its opacity at 1 (at the time of the button click) stay at opacity 1. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Here is a jsfiddle http://jsfiddle.net/seifs4/krm6uenj/
$(document).ready(function () {
$.fn.extend({
brighten: function(){
$(this).fadeTo(150, 1);
}
});
$.fn.extend({
fade: function(){
$(this).fadeTo(150, 0.2);
}
});
function animateSequence() {
$('.game-square').each(function (i) {
$(this).delay((i++) * 145).brighten();
$(this).delay((i++) * 5).fade();
});
}
animateSequence()
var interval=setInterval(animateSequence, 1700);
$('#red-button').click(function(){
$('.game-square').each(function(){
if ($('.game-square', this).not().css('opacity') == 0.2){
$(this).css('opacity', '1');
}
});
clearInterval(interval);
});
});

You maybe need something like this:
function animateSequence(){
this.current = 0;
this.squares = $(".game-square");
this.animate = function(){
this.squares.eq(this.current).fadeTo(150, 1, function(){
$(this).fadeTo(150, 0.2)
});
this.current = this.current >= this.squares.length - 1 ? 0 : this.current + 1;
};
this.start = function(){
this.running = setInterval(this.animate.bind(this), 150)
};
this.stop = function(){
this.running = clearInterval(this.running);
this.squares.eq(this.current).stop().css("opacity",1);
alert("Current color: " + this.squares.eq(this.current).attr("class"))
}
}
Demo
This is the advantage of working with objects, a way very readable, simple and orderly.

I will take a different and less complex approach. Perhaps it has even better performance.
Demo http://jsfiddle.net/LkatLkz2/8/
This is the whole code. I use css for animation effect, and class changing opacity.
var sqrs = $('.game-square'),
len = sqrs.length,
i=0,
looping = true;
setInterval(function(){
if (!looping) return;
sqrs.removeClass('full').eq(i).addClass('full');
i = ++i % len;
},400);
$("#red-button").click(function () {
looping = !looping;
});

The JQuery .stop() function help you to stop the animation. I know this is not the best solution for your problem because your opacity stay "1" only a short time.
$('#red-button').click(function(){
clearInterval(interval);
$('.game-square').stop();//this stop the animation
$('.game-square').each(function(){
if ($(this).not().css('opacity') > '0.2'){// I changed this logic
$(this).css('opacity', '1');
}
});
});

How do you make a .hover delay in jquery

I have a slider with thumbnails under the slides. I want to hover over the thumbnail image and change the slide. Is there a way to hover over a thumbnail img wait a second then change the slide to match the thumbnail?
$(function(){
$("#main-photo-slider").codaSlider();
$navthumb = $(".nav-thumb");
$crosslink = $(".cross-link");
$navthumb.hover(function() {
var $this = $(this);
theInterval($this.parent().attr('id').slice(1) - 1);
return false;
} );
theInterval();
});
This is what I have and it works but it doesn't have a 1 second time lapse

Try this.
$navthumb.hover(function() {
var $this = $(this);
setTimeout(function(){
$this.parent().attr('id').slice(1) - 1);
}, 1000);
return false;
} );

How to pause slideshow when hovering

How do I add a pause effect when I hover over an image in a jQuery slideshow?
$(document).ready(function () {
slideShow();
});
function slideShow() {
var showing = $('#slideshow .show');
var next = showing.next().length ? showing.next() : showing.parent().children(':first');
var timer;
showing.fadeOut(500, function () {
next.fadeIn(200).addClass('show');
}).removeClass('show');
setTimeout(slideShow, 3000);
}

var hovering = false; //default is not hovering
$("#slideshow").hover(function () { //*replace body with your element
hovering = true; //when hovered, hovering is true
}, function () {
hovering = false; //when un-hovered, hovering is false
slideShow(); //start the process again
});
function slideShow() {
if(!hovering) { //if not hovering, proceed
/* Your code here*/
nextSlide();
setTimeout(slideShow, 1000);
}
}
function nextSlide(){
var showing = $('#slideshow .show');
var next = showing.next().length ? showing.next() : showing.parent().children(':first');
var timer;
showing.fadeOut(500, function () {
next.fadeIn(200).addClass('show');
}).removeClass('show');
}
Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/DerekL/mqEbZ/

Use .delay() that will help.
Description: Set a timer to delay execution of subsequent items in the queue.

I think you need two functions for that ... slideShow() and other one say pauseSlideshow()... now call the slideshow() on mouseout event and on mouseenter call pauseSlideShow()
your code should be something like this
$(document).ready(function(){
$('.slider').mouseout( slideShow());
$('.slider').mouseenter( pauseSlideShow());
});
function slideShow() {
var showing = $('#slideshow .show');
var next = showing.next().length ? showing.next() : showing.parent().children(':first');
var timer;
showing.fadeOut(500, function() { next.fadeIn(200).addClass('show'); }).removeClass('show');
timeOut = setTimeout(slideShow, 3000);
}
function PauseSlideShow() {
window.clearTimeout(timeOut);
}
TRY IT

Working off of Derek's answer, an alternative to hover would be to use mouseenter and mouseleave.
See the working slideshow Jsfiddle: Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/highwayoflife/6kDG7/
var hovering = false;
var slideshow = $("#slideshow");
slideshow.mouseenter(function() {
hovering = true;
}).mouseleave(function() {
hovering = false;
slideShow();
});
function slideShow() {
if (!hovering) {
# Some browsers don't interpret "display:block" as being visible
# If no images are deemed visible, choose the first...
var currentImg = (slideshow.children("img:visible").length) ? slideshow.children("img:visible") : slideshow.children("img:first");
var nextImg = (currentImg.next().length) ? currentImg.next() : slideshow.children("img:first");
currentImg.fadeOut(500, function() {
nextImg.fadeIn(500, function() {
setTimeout(slideShow, 2000);
});
});
}
}
$(document).ready(function() {
slideShow();
});

Load Image and Fade In, but in sequential way

I'm trying to load my images and fade in. Its working. But lets suppose that I have 4 images. Right now, my script its working by loading the last image, not the first. How can I make my js load the first image, and just start loading the second after the first has been loaded?
Here's my code:
$(function(){
$("a").click(function(){
$("#load").load('load.html', function() {
$('#load img').hide();
alert($("#load img").length);
$('#load img').each( function(){
$(this).on('load', function () {
$(this).fadeIn();
});
});
});
return false;
});
});

See http://jsfiddle.net/5uNGR/15/
Try something where you are not trying to perform a fadeIn on each image as they load, but test the ok-ness of the next image in your animation queue each time ANY load event happens, then on the animation callback, see if the next one is ready. Here is a script that should work.
BTW, see http://www.sajithmr.me/javascript-check-an-image-is-loaded-or-not for more on image readiness testing.
$(function () {
// util fn to test if image loaded properly
var isImgLoadOk = function (img) {
if (!img.complete) { return false; }
if (typeof img.naturalWidth != "undefined" && img.naturalWidth == 0) {
return false;
}
return true;
};
$("a").on('click', function () {
$("#load").load('load.html', function () {
var imgs = $('#load img').hide(), //create image array and hide (chaining)
animIndex = 0, //position in the animation queue
isFading = false; //track state of whether an animation is in prog
// this is a load handler AND is called in the fadeIn callback if
// not at last image in the collection
var fadeNextImg = function () {
// make sure a load event didn't happen in the middle of an animation
if (isFading) return;
// last image in animation queue?
var isLast = animIndex == imgs.length - 1;
// get the raw image out of the collection and test if it is loaded happily
var targetImage = imgs[animIndex];
if (isImgLoadOk(targetImage)) {
// jQuery-up the htmlImage
targetImage = $(targetImage);
// increment the queue
animIndex++;
// set animation state - this will ignore load events
isFading = true;
// fade in the img
targetImage.fadeIn('slow', function () {
isFading = false;
// test to see if next image is ready to load by
// recursively calling the parent fn
if (!isLast) fadeNextImg();
});
}
};
imgs.on('load', fadeNextImg);
});
return false;
});
});

Ron's solution is a little over-engineered IMO. If your intention is indeed to load all of the images before the animation starts, then you could do something similar to the following:
$(function(){
$("a").click(function(){
$("#load").load('load.html', function() {
$('#load img').hide(); // I would recommend using css to hide the image instead
alert($("#load img").length);
$("#load img").each(function(i, image) {
setTimeout(function() { // For each image, set increasingly large timeout before fadeIn
$(this).fadeIn();
}, 2000 * i);
});
});
return false;
});
});

does jQuery stop() work on custom functions?

There are three images that I have made a tooltip for each.
I wanted to show tooltips within timed intervals say for 2 seconds first tooltip shows and for the second interval the 2nd tooltips fades in and so on.
for example it can be done with this function
function cycle(id) {
var nextId = (id == "block1") ? "block2": "block1";
$("#" + id)
.delay(shortIntervalTime)
.fadeIn(500)
.delay(longIntervalTime)
.fadeOut(500, function() {cycle(nextId)});
}
now what i want is to stop the cycle function when moseover action occurs on each of the images and show the corresponding tooltip. And again when the mouse went away again the cycle function fires.

If I understand everthing correctly, than try this code. Tt stops the proccess if you hover the image and continues if you leave the image. The stop() function will work on custom functions if you implement them like the fadeOut(), slideIn(), ... functions of jquery.
$('#' + id)
.fadeIn(500, function () {
var img = $(this).find('img'),
self = $(this),
fadeOut = true;
img.hover(function () {
fadeOut = false;
},
function () {
window.setTimeout(function () {
self.fadeOut(500);
}, 2000);
}
);
window.setTimeout(function () {
if (fadeOut === false) {
return;
}
self.fadeOut(500);
}, 2000);
});​