tra/periodic

jQuery plugin for doing periodic execution

periodic's Issues

destroy persiodic when element is removed

hi,
can we destroy the periodic function when an element is removed ?
because what i am facing is that if an element with periodic is attached to is removed before the period time is over, periodic will still execute the function.

thanks in advanced.

cancel wont work for me.

Great work on the plugin.
I cant get the cancel function to do what it is supposed to do i think.

Im not a pro but i hacked the cancel function to get it to work.

function cancel() {
    settings.tid = undefined;
}

I also needed to change the run function:
function run() {
// clear/stop existing timer (multiple calls to run() won't result in multiple timers)
cancel();
// let it rip!
settings.tid = setTimeout(function() {
// set the context (this) for the callback to the settings object
callback.call(settings);

  if (settings.tid != undefined){
  // compute the next value for cur_period
  increment();
  // queue up the next run
  run();
  }
}, settings.cur_period);
}

got 2 periods running and this only affects the one i cancel.
If u got a better fix or an explanation why it not works for me ill be happy to hear.
yol

Edit: sry missed the earlier issue posted.

cancel() does not stop immediately

Hi,

First off, thanks for this really great implementation. I'm currently trying to cancel the whole polling if the server script returns an error. How I do this is the error message is communicated via json from the server. My code is like this:

success: function(data) {
if (data.status == 0) {
alert(data.msg);
this.periodic.cancel();
}
}

the problem with the above is that after the first error is received, periodic goes on to allow another cycle before it finally stops completely. The user in this instance will receive two alert boxes.

How can I make it such that it stops the moment i call cancel()?

Thanks :)

cancel from an external call

Hi,

I'd like to cancel the polling if say a button is clicked... however I'm not sure how to get a handle into the polling process to cancel it.

Thanks!

Setting this.periodic.cur_period does not appear to work

Hi,

I'm trying to assign a value to this while periodic is doing its loop, but it doesn't seem to have any effect.

I run periodic upon $(document).ready(function () {}); and I notice the first and 2nd iteration is almost immediately after. I'm trying to space the 2nd iteration further from the first.