jQuery move and accelerate to a direction for unknown distance (smooth scroll)

Question

Imagine this code (simplified)

<img id="leftArrow"/>
<div style="overflow:hidden; width:300px">
  <img id="wideImage" style="width:1000px; position:absolute; left:0"/>
</div>
<img id="rightArrow"/>

that will result in something like this

How do you make #wideImage scroll smoothly to the left when #rightArrow is hovered?

I am after something like this

$('#right').hover(function() {
  //On hover, accelerate #wideImage to the left
}, function() {
  //On mouse out, decelerate to stop
});

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Maybe you should give a look @ this

Answer 2

Here is nice tutorial that essentially does the same thing you are trying to do (automatically too)

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Edit: Oh, your screen shot kind of threw me off, I was thinking you wanted to scroll through multiple images, but now I see you want to pan across one very wide one?

I made a demo to answer another question, but I updated it so you could just hover over the buttons to animate the image. I hope this is more like what you wanted.

Answer 3

This sort of does it

$('#right').hover(function() {
  $('#wideImage').animate({ left: '-=50' }, 250, 'easeInQuad', function () {
    $('#wideImage').animate({ left: '-=600' }, 250, 'linear', function () {
      $('#wideImage').animate({ left: '-=50' }, 250, 'easeOutQuad');
    });
  });
}, function() {
  $('#wideImage').stop();
  $('#wideImage').animate({ left: '-=50' }, 250, 'easeOutQuad');
});