Comments on: Using MooTools Periodicals

By: Makarand

Makarand — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 11:59:36 +0000

Thanks a ton.

It works !

Just used it in Joomla 1.5 with your code to auto-update an html element with some minor changes. Worked flawlessly.

By: David Walsh

David Walsh — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 04:23:54 +0000

Eh, this one instead:

$clear = function(inter){ clearTimeout(inter); clearInterval(inter); return null; };

By: David Walsh

David Walsh — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 00:17:23 +0000

$clear has been deprecated with MooTools 1.3. Use clearInterval or clearTimeout instead.

If you want to hold onto clear, you could code:

$clear = function(inter){ clearInterval(inter); };

By: Mauno Märjamaalt

Mauno Märjamaalt — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 22:09:57 +0000

I love Mootools and I have used periodical a lot. But I just downloaded the new Mootools v1.3 for my new project and it seemes as if the $clear function does not exist any more (“$clear is not defined” is what my browser says). Anyways, I’m unable to find it, added almost all Core & More classes, but no success :(

By: Avi

Avi — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 08:12:50 +0000

Hi David,
I have assigned the blinking effect to one element.
Just doing display block and display none to that element to make it like blink.
I am assigning the periodical method to that element to make it blink.
Problem is that when I assign event for first time it works fine, but when I assign it second time then it reduce the interval to half.I mean to say it interval 1000ms then on assigning for second time interval become 500ms. I have tried the clear method but no luck with that.

By: Ryan Florence

Ryan Florence — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:51:37 +0000

Woops, wrong link:

http://moodocs.net/rpflo/mootools-rpflo/Loop

By: Ryan Florence

Ryan Florence — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:24:22 +0000

For the same reason (slideshows) I created `Loop` to handle starting/stopping etc. of a periodical in a class. Check it: http://moodocs.ryanflorence.com/rpflo/Loop

It has been more valuable than I ever imagined at first.

By: David Walsh

David Walsh — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:35:17 +0000

@Jill: No, it’s very simple!

By: Jill

Jill — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:33:40 +0000

This is insane. SUCK ME!

By: Matthias

Matthias — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:01:16 +0000

Great example, thanks! I’m sure this will be helpful quite soon.