Window Moving Example

var bounce = {
    x:0, y:0, w:200, h:100,   // Window position and size
    dx:5, dy:5,               // Window velocity
    interval: 100,            // Milliseconds between updates
    win: null,                // The window we will create
    timer: null,              // Return value of setInterval()

    // Start the animation
    start: function() {
         // Start with the window in the center of the screen
         bounce.x = (screen.width - bounce.w)/2;
         bounce.y = (screen.height - bounce.h)/2;

         // Create the window that we're going to move around
         // The javascript: URL is simply a way to display a short document
         // The final argument specifies the window size
         bounce.win = window.open('javascript:"<h1>BOUNCE!</h1>"', "", 
                                  "left=" + bounce.x + ",top=" + bounce.y +
                                  ",width=" + bounce.w + ",height=" +bounce.h+
                                  ",status=yes");
         
         // Use setInterval() to call the nextFrame() method every interval 
         // milliseconds. Store the return value so that we can stop the
         // animation by passing it to clearInterval().
         bounce.timer  = setInterval(bounce.nextFrame, bounce.interval);
    },

    // Stop the animation
    stop: function() {
         clearInterval(bounce.timer);                // Cancel timer
         if (!bounce.win.closed) bounce.win.close(); // Close window
    },

    // Display the next frame of the animation.  Invoked by setInterval()
    nextFrame: function() {
         // If the user closed the window, stop the animation
         if (bounce.win.closed) {
             clearInterval(bounce.timer);
             return;
         }
         
         // Bounce if we have reached the right or left edge
         if ((bounce.x+bounce.dx > (screen.availWidth - bounce.w)) ||
             (bounce.x+bounce.dx < 0)) bounce.dx = -bounce.dx;
         
         // Bounce if we have reached the bottom or top edge
         if ((bounce.y+bounce.dy > (screen.availHeight - bounce.h)) ||
             (bounce.y+bounce.dy < 0)) bounce.dy = -bounce.dy;
         
         // Update the current position of the window
         bounce.x += bounce.dx;
         bounce.y += bounce.dy;
         
         // Finally, move the window to the new position
         bounce.win.moveTo(bounce.x,bounce.y);

         // Display current position in window status line
         bounce.win.defaultStatus = "(" + bounce.x + "," + bounce.y + ")";
    }
}