OK well one I have tried to contact the author of this application and he no longer writes or supports it and I know nothing about javascript... so here I am BEGGING FOR HELP!!! any body will to give this a go would love to try anything
here is my problem the timer is self works fine but since new updates (RECENT) in Chrome and Firefox when you move away from the window it stop the count then when you come back to it the count starts again I dont want the count to stop any ideas would be great
Code:
window.onload=progressBarInit;
// Timer Bar - Version 1.0
// Author: Brian Gosselin of http://scriptasylum.com
var loadedcolor='<?php echo $gSurfLoadColour; ?>' ; // PROGRESS BAR COLOR
var unloadedcolor='<?php echo $gSurfUnloadColour; ?>'; // COLOR OF UNLOADED AREA
var bordercolor='<?php echo $gSurfLoadBoardColour; ?>'; // COLOR OF THE BORDER
var barheight=15; // HEIGHT OF PROGRESS BAR IN PIXELS
var barwidth=190; // WIDTH OF THE BAR IN PIXELS
var waitTime=<?php echo $gSurfTimer - $members_time_deduct; ?>; // NUMBER OF SECONDS FOR PROGRESSBAR
// THE FUNCTION BELOW CONTAINS THE ACTION(S) TAKEN ONCE BAR REACHES 100%.
// IF NO ACTION IS DESIRED, TAKE EVERYTHING OUT FROM BETWEEN THE CURLY BRACES ({})
// BUT LEAVE THE FUNCTION NAME AND CURLY BRACES IN PLACE.
// PRESENTLY, IT IS SET TO DO NOTHING, BUT CAN BE CHANGED EASILY.
// TO CAUSE A REDIRECT TO ANOTHER PAGE, INSERT THE FOLLOWING LINE:
// window.location="http://redirect_page.html";
// JUST CHANGE THE ACTUAL URL OF COURSE :)
//*****************************************************//
//********** DO NOT EDIT BEYOND THIS POINT **********//
//*****************************************************//
var ns4=(document.layers)?true:false;
var ie4=(document.all)?true:false;
var blocksize=(barwidth-2)/waitTime/10;
var loaded=0;
var PBouter;
var PBdone;
var PBbckgnd;
var Pid=0;
var txt='';
if(ns4){
txt+='<table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr><td>';
txt+='<ilayer name="PBouter" visibility="hide" height="'+barheight+'" width="'+barwidth+'">';
txt+='<layer width="'+barwidth+'" height="'+barheight+'" bgcolor="'+bordercolor+'" top="0" left="0"></layer>';
txt+='<layer width="'+(barwidth-2)+'" height="'+(barheight-2)+'" bgcolor="'+unloadedcolor+'" top="1" left="1"></layer>';
txt+='<layer name="PBdone" width="'+(barwidth-2)+'" height="'+(barheight-2)+'" bgcolor="'+loadedcolor+'" top="1" left="1"></layer>';
txt+='</ilayer>';
txt+='</td></tr></table>';
}else{
txt+='<div id="PBouter" style="position:relative; visibility:hidden; background-color:'+bordercolor+'; width:'+barwidth+'px; height:'+barheight+'px;">';
txt+='<div style="position:absolute; top:1px; left:1px; width:'+(barwidth-2)+'px; height:'+(barheight-2)+'px; background-color:'+unloadedcolor+'; font-size:1px;"></div>';
txt+='<div id="PBdone" style="position:absolute; top:1px; left:1px; width:0px; height:'+(barheight-2)+'px; background-color:'+loadedcolor+'; font-size:1px;"></div>';
txt+='</div>';
}
function incrCount(){
window.status="<?php echo $gSurfWStatusCD; ?>";
loaded++;
if(loaded<0)loaded=0;
if(loaded>=waitTime*10){
clearInterval(Pid);
loaded=waitTime*10;
setTimeout('hidebar()',100);
}
resizeEl(PBdone, 0, blocksize*loaded, barheight-2, 0);
//alert((waitTime+1)-Math.ceil(loaded/10));
tempcnt = (waitTime+1)-Math.ceil(loaded/10);
document.getElementById('count').innerHTML=tempcnt;
}
function breaker_bar() {
parent.np=1;
parent.framesBreaking(false);
return true;
}
function wrong() {
parent.wsftpaw.location.replace('../index.php?_w=wrong_button');
}
function submitform(id) {
parent.np=1;
parent.framesBreaking(false);
document.surfform.cl.value=id;
document.surfform.submit();
}
function hidebar(){
document.getElementById('count').innerHTML=0;
window.status='<?php echo $gSurfWStatusEnd; ?>';
switchDiv('counter', false,0);
switchDiv('buttons', true,0);
}
//THIS FUNCTION BY MIKE HALL OF BRAINJAR.COM
function findlayer(name,doc){
var i,layer;
for(i=0;i<doc.layers.length;i++){
layer=doc.layers[i];
if(layer.name==name)return layer;
if(layer.document.layers.length>0)
if((layer=findlayer(name,layer.document))!=null)
return layer;
}
return null;
}
function progressBarInit(){
PBouter=(ns4)?findlayer('PBouter',document):(ie4)?document.all['PBouter']:document.getElementById('PBouter');
PBdone=(ns4)?PBouter.document.layers['PBdone']:(ie4)?document.all['PBdone']:document.getElementById('PBdone');
resizeEl(PBdone,0,0,barheight-2,0);
if(ns4)PBouter.visibility="show";
else PBouter.style.visibility="visible";
Pid=setInterval('incrCount()',95);
//Load the rest of the pages, loading sequence system
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