Hi,
I want to wait few seconds between 2 operations in javascript.
Is there a way to do it (something like sleep in Java or wait in c)?
I'm using the setTimeout(), but the problem is that sometimes I have problems with timeout intervals that are bigger than 600 ms. (Have any idea why?)
Thanks,
Efrat
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Hi Hongjun,
I used to activate the actions after a button was pressed from the onClick command.
(For example: onClick="javascript:stat()
Your example made me try something a bit different:
From the onClick I call only to the stat function and from there I call the setTimeout.
I don't understand why, but it worked! (Do you have any idea why?)
Anyway, the points are yours...
Thanks very much for your help,
I don't know if this will still be useful to you or not:
When you run stat(); javascript executes the function and only once the function has finished will it wait 2 seconds before calling openGraph(). So what happens is this:
run stat()....stat() finished.
wait 2 seconds.
run openGraph().... openGraph() finished.
And this is why you never got to see the openGraph function run while stat was running.
I can also tell you why it works after you've inserted the openGraph() call inside of the stat() call: Remember that when you call a function (like stat()) javascript will wait for that function to finish before continuing. However when you say window.setTimeout(blah(),2
So in your new code this is happening:
run stat(), run openGraph() after 2 seconds but continue running stat()...
After 2 seconds both functions will be running at the same time!!
Hope that solved the mystery for you (assuming you ever read this again).
Just for completeness check out this site. It Implements a sleep function in JavaScript in a couple different ways. This site shows why it is not possible to create a true sleep function in JavaScript (at least not one that will work on all popular browsers).
http://www.devcheater.com - javascript sleep
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by: T-RexPosted on 2002-12-29 at 02:09:08ID: 7641465
setTimeout('action()',2000
2000 is two seconds
Greetz,
T-Rex