pr0gr4mm3r wrote: You

decibel.places — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 02:54:43 +0000

pr0gr4mm3r wrote:

You linked to it. Is your cold affecting your memory? :D

HaH! - I did not read the url or header - I found it on Google - just glanced over the code...

My apologies

and the cold is affecting me, a bit, but that Advil Cold & Sinus is also making me speedy now, who needs meth? (actually, I knew a guy in college who brought meth from DC up to our Ivy League campus - it was great for studying and stuff, but it kind of ruined my friend's brain...)

an elated article? You

pr0gr4mm3r — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 02:35:32 +0000

an elated article?

You linked to it. Is your cold affecting your memory?

pr0gr4mm3r wrote: ... that

decibel.places — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 01:35:58 +0000

pr0gr4mm3r wrote:

... that elated article ...

an elated article?

e⋅lat⋅ed [i-ley-tid]
–adjective very happy or proud; jubilant; in high spirits: an elated winner of a contest.

I am elated that you enjoyed the article...

Yup, I found that elated

pr0gr4mm3r — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 01:27:18 +0000

Yup, I found that elated article shortly after posting the question. I had a problem with it at first because IE caches AJAX requests to the same URL, so I was thinking that it wasn't making the call repeatedly. I got around IE's caching problem by sending a post request with the current timestamp.

teammatt3 wrote: [edited

decibel.places — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 22:13:07 +0000

teammatt3 wrote:

[edited for completeness]

var mytimer = setTimeout ( "expression", timeout-in-milliseconds );

var myinterval = setInterval ( "expression", interval-in-milliseconds );

cancel with

clearTimout(mytimer) or clearInterval(myinterval)

you can also change the value of mytimer or myinterval before they run out

if you do not need to manipulate the timer or cancel it, you do not need the timerId (var mytimer or var myinterval) - however if you do not use an id variable and you call the function before the existing object has triggered, you will create a NEW instance of the timeout or interval with multiple events happening

you can also have a function that calls the one containing setTimeout (it can even be the same function) recursively

here's more

The best way? Well, you

teammatt3 — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 22:00:27 +0000

The best way? Well, you really only have two options:

setTimeout ( expression, timeout );
That will execute expression after timeout, one time.

setInterval ( expression, interval );
and clearInterval()
That will execute expression every interval forever. setInterval() returns an ID which you need to pass to clearInterval() to stop the execution.

what about setTimeout() or

decibel.places — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 21:59:03 +0000

what about setTimeout() or setInterval() ?