[davidg]

Hello,

I am using the javascript setinterval to try and make something appear and then disappear after 3 seconds. When the showdiag() function is executed it works great the first time, but the next times the setinterval() lasts about 1 second or less. Not sure why this is happening.

function showDiag(){

phoneui.showActivityDialog("Page Is Loading");
setInterval(function(){phoneui.hideActivityDialog()}, 3000)

 }

I have tried several variations including setinterval(Hide, 3000) Where Hide() was another function and it has the same effect as the previous example.

I want it wait 3 seconds each time, not just the first time it is executed.

Thanks

[support-michael]

http://www.w3schools.com/js/js_timing.asp

Replace setInterval() with setTimeout(). Use setInterval() to run once.

setTimeout() runs continuously every 3 seconds until your app stops. So everytime you call that function you start yet another timer.

[davidg]

@support-wayne wrote:

http://www.w3schools.com/js/js_timing.asp

Replace setInterval() with setTimeout(). Use setInterval() to run once.

setTimeout() runs continuously every 3 seconds until your app stops. So everytime you call that function you start yet another timer.

Thanks that works perfect now. 🙂

I don’t know why I coudn’t figure that out. :/

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