[Seaside] Re: Clear/stop a periodic javascript process using Seaside?

[Paul DeBruicker]

Thanks for the replies and pointers.  I went ahead and made this jQuery 
plugin:

http://plugins.jquery.com/project/Registered-Interval

and then added it to the jQuery Widget Box on squeaksource.com.  It 
stores the interval ID in the .data() function of a DOM element and then 
retrieves from the DOM element when you want to clear the interval.

In the example I uploaded to SqueakSource there are three counters that 
update independently of each other at different speeds using 
setInterval.  Each can be started and stopped independently.  It does 
what I want for now.

I wanted to have this as I'm using Futures for some stuff and need to 
poll for results from multiple tabs on the same page and didn't want to 
do a full page refresh when each tab had results.  It seems to work for 
that purpose. I need to poll for results rather than let the Futures 
block because I want to port what I've done to Gemstone and Dale's 
recommendation was to poll for results rather than block.


I think the javascript code could be made more reliable and from what 
I've read it'd be a better idea to use setTimeout recursively rather 
than setInterval but I haven't gotten my head around that yet.

Thanks again

Paul