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15-Jan-07 00:00
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This is a forum topic for discussing the article "JavaScript Timers with setTimeout and setInterval":

http://www.elated.com/articles/javascript-timers-with-settimeout-and-setinterval/

In this tutorial we'll look at JavaScript's setTimeout(), clearTimeout(), setInterval() and clearInterval() methods, and show how to use them to set timers and create delayed actions.
03-Mar-10 03:54
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akeane akeane's avatar Rank: none
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Excellent explanation of timers and your examples are great.
Thank you.
03-Mar-10 16:34
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@akeane: Thanks for your kind words. I'm glad you enjoyed the tutorial.

Cheers,
Matt

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10-Apr-10 14:57
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Another thing to talk about here with setInterval is setting a loop counter and clearing the interval when that loop count is hit.



     var counter = 0
     intervalId = 0;

     function myLoopFunction()
     {
               intervalId = setInterval(function() {
               //make this is the first thing you do in the set interval function
               counter++;
                
              //do you code for setInterval() and clearInterval under normal conditions here...
              
             //okay, if we have tried for 5 minutes (30 x 10 seconds ), then lets stop trying because we did not reach the clearInterval under number means

           //make this the last check in your set interval function
            if ( counter > 30 ) {
                clearInterval(polliFrameSourceIntervalId);
            }
 
             //end setInterval
            } , 10000);



07-Dec-10 00:12
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Very useful post, and the examples are just superb, thanks, it helped a lot!!

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09-Dec-10 19:22
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@anupam: Thanks, glad you found it helpful

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19-Jan-11 08:27
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I Just want to thank you for such a great and simple to follow tutorial. I have looked at a lot over the past few weeks and I have got to say this is the best one I have seen for ages. Keep up the good work this has helped me heaps.
20-Jan-11 14:20
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@NT_Jester: You're welcome - thanks for the kind words. Hope life is good up in the NT!

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19-Aug-11 07:47
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Great and detailed explanations, I took the time to create an account just to thank you as it helped debugging a JavaScript issue I had since a while.
23-Aug-11 22:41
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@ecommy: Great stuff

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08-Feb-12 08:16
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Thank you for this post.
I was able to modify this for a music writing application.
I will link back.
13-Feb-12 04:10
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@froopy: You're welcome - thanks for the link back

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30-Apr-12 16:10
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thank you for taking the time to create this clear and useful post!
 
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