'Stop' a script from running..

[Nathan323]

OK, here goes..

I need to know the (hopefully) standard way of stopping a script from running, ie. I have an onMouseover that instigates a script and I want the onMouseout to stop the script, rather than do something else.

Eg.
<A ONMOUSEOVER="fadetext()"><IMG SRC="Image/Speaker.gif" width=20 height=20></A>

This runs a fade-in text description of the image, but remains after the mouse leaves the image. If someone knows how to fix this within the fadetext function then great, but I would like to know if there is any way to stop a script in general, as well.

Cheers.

[strangerstill]

I guess you ought to create a global variable and have fadetext() check it during its running; the onmouseout event would change its value, the fadetext() function detects this and acts accordingly.