My Bad, your inline comments did imply to return false to stop the
callback, other TRUE to continue.
But how to you pass the options, specifically, changing the
frequency?
Thanks
On Aug 18, 5:45 am, Pops <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Aug 17, 5:43 pm, westamastaflash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > So I wrote a periodic execution function for jQuery, similar to the
> > PeriodicExecuter function of prototype. I'd like some feedback as to
> > it's usefulness (or non-usefullness). This is my first plugin, so any
> > suggestions as to what to change are appreciated (should I use
> > jQuery.extend to create the plugin, or just assign it like this,
> > etc).
>
> Hi
>
> I'm still new to jQuery (I'm getting tired of saying that <g>) but do
> you have an example usage of your new plugin?
>
> I tried:
>
> $.period(myCallBack);
>
> and this seem to work, my simple callback adds a list to a listbox to
> provide the visual. But it only did it once.
>
> I was trying to change the frequency (without altering your code) but
> I'm not yet well verse to read a jQuery function or plugin to see how
> it is implemented without documentation. However, with trial and
> error, I did try this:
>
> $.period(myCallBack, "{frequency: 5}");
>
> but that didn't seem to take. The frequency was still 10. An
> example will help. :-)
>
> > I'm trying to find a solution to a bug in firefox (but NOT internet
> > explorer) where the parallel execution of the callback function is not
> > shielded by the code (prototype's PeriodicExecuter has the same
> > problem - their example code *does not work* in firefox (firebug & web
> > developer plugin installed). Any comments are appreciated.
>
> Are you saying your provided code is not quite right for FF and the 1
> time callback I saw under FF is an example behavior? And under IE its
> works fine?
>
> --
> HLS
