You can always just use the regular updater and use setTimeout to call
itself after it completes. Then just put some logic around the
setTimeout.
On Mar 26, 1:10 pm, seran128 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ok, I have looked for the past two days for an example of how to get
> the stop method to work. I have yet to find a coheasive example my
> code is strate formard. I have three sections to my site. The first is
> the about section, second is a ticker section and third is historical
> section. So when the user clicks on the ticker section this needs to
> update every 15 seconds. The other two pages don't need to update. The
> problem is when the user clicks on the about or historical page I see
> the PeriodicalUpdater still runnning in the background on firebug.
> My code
>
> /**
> * makePeriodicalUpdater function is a shortcut to the prototype
> Ajax.Updater object.
> * @param div the div that you want the response to be written into.
> * @param url the location to send the request to.
> * @param method post or get.
> * @param method pars any parameters that need to be passed. These
> should be in QueryString format.
> * @param eval boolean that decides whether or not scripts should be
> evaluated.
> **/
> PeriodicalUpdater: function(localDiv, localUrl, localMethod,
> localPars, localEval)
> {
>
> objTick = new Ajax.PeriodicalUpdater(
> localDiv,
> localUrl,
> {
> frequency : 15,
> decay: 1.1,
> method: localMethod,
> parameters: localPars,
> evalScripts:localEval
>
> });
> //turns the local div on
> $(localDiv).style.display='block';
> return true;
>
> },
>
> Then later in the code if the use clicks on the about link I have
>
> if(request=='about')
> {
> ...
> code that hides the divs that are currently displayed
> ......
>
> this.objTick.stop();
> ....
> Then more code to display the about page
> which goes to a just Ajax.Updater class.
> .....
>
> }
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