jquery.mousecapture.js
version 1.2
by Sander Dieleman <sanderdieleman at gmail dot com>
A simple mouse capturing plugin for jQuery.


LICENSE

This program is free software. It comes without any warranty, to
the extent permitted by applicable law. You can redistribute it
and/or modify it under the terms of the Do What The Fuck You Want
To Public License, Version 2, as published by Sam Hocevar. See
http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/COPYING for more details.  


USAGE

$( ... ).mousecapture({
    "down": function(event, sharedData) { ... },
    "move": function(event, sharedData) { ... },
    "up": function(event, sharedData) { ... }
});
"down", "move" and "up" are the handlers for the mousedown, mousemove and
mouseup events respectively. Only "down" is required.
The unmodified event object is passed to the handlers (event), as well as
a blank slate object (sharedData) which can be used to store data that
needs to be shared between the handlers. Alternatively, shared variables
can be declared before the mousecapture call.
Inside the handlers, "this" refers to the target element, just like when
jQuery's regular mouse events would be used.
DEMO
A demo is available at:
http://benanne.net/misc/jquery-plugins/mousecapture/demo.html


MORE INFORMATION

Read http://benanne.net/code/?p=238 for more information.


CHANGES

v1.2
- the context in which the down and up handlers are executed should be
  "$this", not "target".
- moved some code around to make it smaller: it doesn't matter whether
  the handlers are attached / unattached before or after the actual
  handler is executed. At least I think it doesn't.

v1.1
- added "return this" to the mousecapture method, so it conforms to the
  jQuery plugin authoring guidelines.

v1.0
- first version