Topic awaiting preservation: sleep

I've been working with JavaScript and Java for a while now, and I'm beginning to miss some things I use in Java, but don't know how to do with JavaScript.

The particular problem in this case is I miss the Thread.sleep() method. For people who don't know Java, Thread.sleep() stops the process for a while and then just continues where is paused. I tried to do something like this with setInterval() and setTimeout() but it does not seem to work.
Does anyone know wether this is possible, and if yes: please tell me!

Thanks in advance,
Koenie

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what I'm trying to do, is making a function sleep for a while before it goes on. Like this:

function myFunkyFunction(myPansyParameter) {

  // do some funky things

  sleep(2000); // wait for 2 seconds

  // do some pansy things

}

Koenie

You can't do that as simply as you want to. You'll have to do it like this:

function foo()
{
// do stuff
setTimeout('bar()', 1000) // 1 second, call "bar" function
// anything here will be executed without waiting, before bar is called
}

function bar()
{
// do stuff
}

var thread = 0;

function start() {
thread = setInterval("pants()",2000);
}

function sleep(duration) {
if(thread)clearTimout(thread);
if(duration)setTimeout("start()",duration);
}

This should work similar to what your used to in Java, it'll only work on the one thread, I couldnt have been bothered writing it all in eval()s or something to accomodate many threads. run sleep(2000) to pause the thread for 2 seconds. Running sleep with no duration will function like a stop() command. To run thread in x amount of seconds, you can run it with sleep(x);



[This message has been edited by Hugh (edited 01-30-2003).]

Will that code work just like I meant to make it work in the code example?

Koenie

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ok, sorry, Sorry, SORRY!!!!! I didn't mean it this way! I was at school when I wrote that, and the computers are quite crappy there. I WILL try it. Million apologees. Sorry.

Sorry, Koenie