clearInterval not working 88 Responses

Last post: 3 months ago | Thread started: Aug 21, 08, 8:47 a.m.

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• CyBrain

  Help please. (AS2)
  What on earth could possibly be preventing this interval from being cleared:

  randomWait = function() {
  clearInterval(rwId);
  gotoAndPlay("steam");
  }
  delaySteam = function() {
  rwId = setInterval(randomWait, randomDelay);
  }

  Aug 21, 08, 8:47 a.m. – Permalink

• CyBrain

  forgot to post the first line:
  var randomDelay:Number = (Math.random() * 1.0 + 0.5) * 1000;

  

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  Dog-earAug 21, 08, 8:49 a.m. – Permalink

• bulletfactory

  could it be that it's working and the time is just too short for frame-based animations?

  put some trace("something happening now"); actions in to see where it's hanging up.

  

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  Dog-earAug 21, 08, 8:51 a.m. – Permalink

• CyBrain

  I had a trace inside the randomWait function that kept repeating roughly every 1 second. That's how I know the interval isn't clearing. Since the numbers being generated are all at least 500 milliseconds, it's not a frame rate issue.

  

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  Dog-earAug 21, 08, 8:55 a.m. – Permalink

• PonyBoy

  i'm thinking it has everything to do w/your interval being a random number...

  • not totally sure what though... but that's got to be root of it.. everything else is correct.– PonyBoy

  

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  Dog-earAug 21, 08, 8:58 a.m. – Permalink

• CyBrain

  The value randomDelay only gets set once, just to delay the framehead that long. Then the interval should get cleared after the goto statement.

  

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  Dog-earAug 21, 08, 8:59 a.m. – Permalink

• pylon

  Is your SWF getting called into another SWF? We've had massive problems with setInterval in that scenario...

  ... or maybe it's to do with the random number, as PB suggests?

  

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  Dog-earAug 21, 08, 9:04 a.m. – Permalink

• CyBrain

  It will be called into another movie eventually, but I'm testing it on its own right now. Unfortunately, I gave up and faked some randomness on the timeline. I'm content with my potato steam and I'm moving on. Thanks for all the help everyone.

  

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  Dog-earAug 21, 08, 9:13 a.m. – Permalink

• PonyBoy

  just for giggles... did you try making the interval global?...

  _global.myInterval = setInterval...

  clearInterval(_global.myInterval…

  

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  Dog-earAug 21, 08, 10:27 a.m. – Permalink