Would you mind posting a link to your timer plugin?
If I'm going to use an external function I will need to pass additional
parameters. How do you force passing the event type along with extra data?
I'm newish to javascript...
Blair Mitchelmore-2 wrote:
>
> It might be better if you didn't use an anonymous function so you could
> reference it multiple times. (I'm going to use a plugin I wrote that
> jQuerizizes timer events cause it really simplifies the syntax of the
> solution but something equivalent could be done without it.)
>
> Example:
> var fn = function(e) {
> if (e.type == 'blur') $(this).stop();
> // Do stuff
> }
> $(whatever).blur(fn).keyup(function() {
> $(this).once(2000,fn);
> }).keydown(function() {
> $(this).stop();
> });
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> -blair
>
> Daemach wrote:
>> I have a form with which I want to do ajax updates as they type. If they
>> stop typing for more than 2 seconds it should update the field. If the
>> field blurs before the 2 seconds are up it should update the field.
>>
>> I have the ajax side of it worked out, and currently the updates work
>> properly when the field blurs. I just need some ideas on how to write
>> the
>> timer function for the keypresses and how it integrates with the blur
>> function so the function doesn't get called twice and so there are no
>> memory
>> leaks from timers set then abandoned because the blur event got to it
>> first.
>>
>> I'm going for elegance here :) I could write an outside function that
>> gets
>> called from both event handlers but that seems cheezy. There must be a
>> way
>> to do this with an anonymous function...
>
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