function findPosX(obj)
{
	var curleft = 0;
	if (obj.offsetParent)
	{
		while (obj.offsetParent)
		{
			curleft += obj.offsetLeft
			obj = obj.offsetParent;
		}
	}
	else if (obj.x)
		curleft += obj.x;
	return curleft;
}

function findPosY(obj)
{
	var curtop = 0;
	if (obj.offsetParent)
	{
		while (obj.offsetParent)
		{
			curtop += obj.offsetTop
			obj = obj.offsetParent;
		}
	}
	else if (obj.y)
		curtop += obj.y;
	return curtop;
}

String.prototype.camelize = function() {
    var oStringList = this.split('-');
    if (oStringList.length == 1) return oStringList[0];

    var camelizedString = this.indexOf('-') == 0
      ? oStringList[0].charAt(0).toUpperCase() + oStringList[0].substring(1)
      : oStringList[0];

    for (var i = 1, len = oStringList.length; i < len; i++) {
      var s = oStringList[i];
      camelizedString += s.charAt(0).toUpperCase() + s.substring(1);
    }

    return camelizedString;
}

function getStyle(element, style) {
//    element = $(element);
    var value = element.style[style.camelize()];
    if (!value) {
      if (document.defaultView && document.defaultView.getComputedStyle) {
        var css = document.defaultView.getComputedStyle(element, null);
        value = css ? css.getPropertyValue(style) : null;
      } else if (element.currentStyle) {
        value = element.currentStyle[style.camelize()];
      }
    }

    if (window.opera && ['left', 'top', 'right', 'bottom'].include(style))
    	if (Element.getStyle(element, 'position') == 'static') value = 'auto';

	return value == 'auto' ? null : value;
}

function setStyle(element, style) {
//	element = $(element);
    for (var name in style)
      element.style[name.camelize()] = style[name];
}
  
function setOpacity(element, value){  
//  element= $(element); 
  if (value >= 1){
    setStyle(element, { opacity: 
      (/Gecko/.test(navigator.userAgent) && !/Konqueror|Safari|KHTML/.test(navigator.userAgent)) ? 
      0.999999 : null });
    if(/MSIE/.test(navigator.userAgent))  
      setStyle(element, {filter: getStyle(element,'filter').replace(/alpha\([^\)]*\)/gi,'')});  
  } else {  
    if(value < 0.00001) value = 0; 
    setStyle(element, {opacity: value});
    if(/MSIE/.test(navigator.userAgent))  {
     setStyle(element, 
       { filter: getStyle(element,'filter').replace(/alpha\([^\)]*\)/gi,'') +
                 'alpha(opacity='+value*100+')' }); 
	}
  }
}  

function getOpacity(element){  
  var opacity;
  if (opacity = getStyle(element, 'opacity'))
    return parseFloat(opacity);
  if (opacity = (getStyle(element, 'filter') || '').match(/alpha\(opacity=(.*)\)/))  
    if(opacity[1]) return parseFloat(opacity[1]) / 100;  
  return 1.0;  
}