PeriodicalExecuter shields you from multiple parallel executions of a
callback function
Is this the case for Ajax calls?
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I've had this happen to me
Consider a simple Ajax.Request() that is part of a click observer
If a user clicks multiple times on the element that is being observed the
Ajax.Request() is fired multiple times
in the typical situation of the PeriodicalExecuter this would be a interval
that is being
The documentation for PE shows this sort of construct used to stop the
executer from inside itself:
new PeriodicalExecuter(function(pe){
if (foo == bar) {
pe.stop();
}else{
doSomething();
}
},5);
Now my other big use-case for this is that I need it to run until I
In my project client/server communication is happening through
webservice calls.
For that i should run more than one(ex:6) PeriodicalExecuter in every
minute.My issue is that, PeriodicalExecuter are keep on calling
without finishing the call of first one.
I want to run a single set of
I have a PeriodicalExecuter that is calling a function every so often
that makes several AJAX calls. I am not having any luck getting the
PeriodicalExecuter to stop via the onFailure callback in the Ajax call.
Is this possible? I see in the API doc that I can use stop() within the
Dear all
I am loading a number of JavaScript files dynamically by appending to
the head/ element. To ensure they're added in the correct order I
came up with the following code which uses a PeriodicalExecuter to
step through an array of script names as and when an anticipated
object in each
Im looking for a way to make PeriodicalExecuter not stack plus add in
a max period setting.
If PeriodicalExecuter could call a function instead of a url I could
set/clear some flags
so it would or wouldn't make the call depending on the flags.
But I don't see how I could do that unless I could
What I am trying to accomplish is a clock that updates every five
seconds. Before it updates I want it to fade out, and after it updates
I want it to fade back in. This is what I have right now:
html
head
script type=text/javascript src=prototype.js/script
script type=text/javascript
Hi there!
Got an error with Prototypes PeriodicalExecuter() (Version 1.6.0.3):
When I use the verified (http://www.prototypejs.org/api/
periodicalExecuter) new PeriodicalExecuter(myobject.testMethod(),
3);, everything seems fine (no error in Firebug etc) but after 3
Seconds an error
