Thanks Sandy, that did the trick.

On Jan 14, 4:16 pm, Sanford Whiteman <[email protected]>
wrote:
> > I am probably wrong but when you clear  fnCount your just clearing the
> > variable not the instance started form it . Thus requiring you to stop the
> > periodical before you clear it .
>
> To  it  another  way:  you  can  only  stop a timer if you have an var
> assigned to the timer.
>
> funcname.timertype(time)  is  an  anonymous  timer. You can't get back
> control  of  it.  Maybe  okay  for  a quick setTimeout, not good for a
> setInterval!
>
> var timeoutid = funcname.timertype(time) is a named timer that you can
> then control using `timeoutid`.
>
> -- Sandy
>
> P.S. Code snippets are so 2009 -- MooShell it up and it is much easier
> to understand the symptoms. (Unless I it's like a one- or two-liner.)

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