Some more JS - Timer problem

[Shortie]

Some more JS

Hi

I need a function which does the following

function do-the-timer(state,function-to-call,timer-period);

So that the state can be Stop, Start, Reset-to-Start

The function-to-call can be anything myfunction-1 or myfunction-2 etc

And the time-period just a value in mSecs

I have tried the following but have had no joy as every time I call the function it starts another time hence there are loads of timer events running so instead of calling the myfuction-1 every 5 mins it calls it every time a refresh happens so if you do not do a refresh all is okay but as soon as you do a refresh another instance is started so if you do three refreshes quickly you end up with the original time doing a refresh and at each instance of the three refreshes you get another

Hope this make sense

The calls I have tried are

SetInterval / ClearInterval

And

SetTimeout / ClearTimeout

So any input is apprecisated

Shortie

[SoLoGHoST]

Shortie, there is a huge difference in uppercase and lowercase of setTimeout and SetTimeout and clearInterval and ClearInterval.  Better to use the setInterval() and clearInterval() functions than setTimeout() and clearTimeout() functions.

So you should use clearInterval(variable) before calling the setInterval.   This will work fine, and if there is no interval to clear, than it just moves on down the list of things to do in the function.

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var daTimer;

function doTheTimer(ms)
{
clearInterval(daTimer);
setInterval('yourFunction(\'functionParameter\')', ms);
daTimer = setInterval('yourFunction(\'functionParameter\')', ms);
}

Hope this helps you.

[Shortie]

cool will try later