Pausing

I have been looking all around the net for a simple digestivable answer to what I'm looking for.

Can someone please give me a straight answer.. It would be very appreciated!

I just want to make JavaScript pause. I don't know what command to use. I tried this after trying to make sense of what social drop outs on other forums have said, but it didn't work.


<SCRIPT type="text/javascript">
document.bgColor = "red";
setTimeout(500);
document.bgColor = "black";
</SCRIPT>

The only real answer I can think of is splitting the commands into 2 functions, where function 1 is run, with a timeout to run function 2


<SCRIPT type="text/javascript">
function f1() {
document.bgColor = "red";
setTimeout('f2();',10000);
};
function f2() {
document.bgColor = "black";
};
f1();
</SCRIPT>


either way, 500 is not really much of a timeout anyways as 1000 is 1 second, you are pausing for half a second, you wouldnt notice it anyway

Sweet as man, thanks. How can you go about looping in JavaScript?... kinda like a while() operator in PHP..

you have while in javascript

Isn't there just a way to write like

flash
pause
flash

if you know what I mean?

you want to loop this background color change?
how many times? indefinately?

Yep....

<SCRIPT type="text/javascript">
function f1() {
document.bgColor = "red";
setTimeout('f2();',10000);
};
function f2() {
document.bgColor = "black";
setTimeout('f1();',10000);
};
f1();
</SCRIPT>

To loop it n times try this-


<SCRIPT type="text/javascript">
function f1(f) {
document.bgColor = "red";
setTimeout('f2('+f+');',10000);
};
function f2(f) {
document.bgColor = "black";
f--;
if (f>0) {
setTimeout('f1('+f+');',10000);
}
};
f1(100);
</SCRIPT>


This will loop it 100 times

thanks man. I will look at it tomorrow when I am fresh. I've just finished an 10 hour PHP coding session. I'm cooked!

See http://www.codingforums.com/showthread.php?t=263299 for a way to automate the code rewrite required where the pauses are in sequential code with no loops and nothing else to run after the current function.

Sweet as man, thanks. How can you go about looping in JavaScript?... kinda like a while() operator in PHP..

<script type="text/javascript">

(function ( c1, c2, t )
{
var state = false,
f = function(){ document.bgColor = ( state ^= true ) ? c1 : c2 };

setInterval( f, t );

})( 'black', 'red', 2000 );

</script>