Preserved Topic: div movement

can anyone tell me what's wrong with this code

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function backdrop()
{
var start=1;
x=75;
y=955;
while(start == 1)
{
leftbackdrop.style.left=x;
rightbackdrop.style.left=y;
x++;
y++;
if(x>=325 && y>=1105)
{
x=75;
y=955;
}
}
}
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it keeps freezing my browser

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the short answer is your while loop is infinite "start" never changes.

Gonna cause lots problems with something like that



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well I got it to work, but it's so fast that I don't see it at all.

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Ensabanur, that is precisely why you need to specify a time interval for that movement function.

You can either use setTimeout() to call the same function by placing it as the last line of the function:
setTimeout( "moveMydiv()", 50 )

or you can use setInterval() once to have the function called repeatedly:
setInterval( "moveMydiv()", 50 )

I've done that, and how it stalls the browser.

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function backdrop()
{

var start
start=1;
x=75;
y=955;
while(start == 1)
{
leftbackdrop.style.left=x;
rightbackdrop.style.left=y;
x--;
y++;
if(x>=325 && y>=1105)
{
start=0;
x=75;
y=955;
}
}
var timer = setTimeout("backdrop()","10000");
}

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Hello! My name is Indigo Montoya... You kill my father... Prepare to DIE!!

Do *not* put your time in double quotes. And the way you're using this you don't need to assign this to a timer variable. Try this and see if it works better:

setTimeout("backdrop()", 50)

I put 50 milliseconds instead of 10000 milliseconds because 10000 milliseconds = 10 seconds and I really don't think you want to wait that long between each move.

I hope that helps.

nope, the program freezes every time I try to run it

Why could be making it do that?

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At this point I can't help you without seeing the page. Could you post a link?

Still infinite loop.

If it runs at all it'll eventually kill the buffer.
The set timeout is even making things worse in this case since it starts even more infinite loops.

You need the setTimeout in an if statement.

Get rid of the while loop.



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[This message has been edited by bitdamaged (edited 12-07-2001).]

Thanks, bit, I glossed right over the loop in there.

I think this is closer to what you need:

var start

start=1

x=75

y=955



function backdrop()

{

   leftbackdrop.style.left=x

   rightbackdrop.style.left=y

   x--

   y++

   if(x>=325 && y>=1105)

   {

      start=0

      x=75

      y=955

   }

   setTimeout("backdrop()",50)

}

[This message has been edited by Bugimus (edited 12-07-2001).]

Thanks a lot guys, I got it working. It doesnt' look that bad I think. You can check it out and the other things I've done here

Thanks again guys, your help is much appreciated.

And I'm sure i'll be asking for more at some point.

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Nice wave! I wrote a similar function that uses a landscape scrolling by: http://bugimus.com/gurus/panorama/panorama.html

Wakkos also did something similar on his page: http://www.wakkos.f2s.com/

Nice work. May I steal this scripts?

#!/usr/bin/perl 



print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; 

print "Hello World!";

Bugimus - VERY COOL!

I've got an idea........

zoran,

You may not "steal" them but you can certainly "learn and use" them

I think most of the coders around here let people use their code but they like to have some recognition as a thank you. I put this comment in my code to remind people. And if you come up with something really cool, please share it with us so we can all benefit.

/*
Written by Bugimus
Copyright © 1998-2001 Bugimus, all rights reserved.
You may use this code for your own *personal* use provided you leave this comment block intact.
A link back to Bugimus' page would be much appreciated. http://bugimus.com/
*/

I was thinking about this, I will give you credits if I use your scripts. I just wanted to point it out, if somebody forget to do it.

#!/usr/bin/perl 



print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; 

print "Hello World!";

well.... I'd hafta say no.....

and that's on accounta..... with the exception of the absence of a coma after the 'Hello' that's the exact first script I wrote in Perl! It's mine!

....then again, I think that also goes for 20 million people too... hehhee

my first page, BASIC code, C code, and first example of div movement all said "Hello, World!"
hehhehe

something I picked up somewhere..... kinda like "All your base are belong to us"...




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