jquery, while loop running in the background, simultaneous while loops
Question
1) How make that while loop would run in background, and the webpage would respond to user clicks despite while loop. If I start the characters generating while loop, I am not able to input the data to the "input", because the generating loop occupies all resources. Actually, whenever I click "start", I am getting the message that the webpage is not responding asking if I want to stop it. After choosing "to stop", I see that the characters are generated. Nevertheless, it is very difficult to input the characters to the input field and to stop the program with "stop" trigger, and usually webpage crashes.
2) How to make several jquery while loops to run simultaneously, and additionally, webpage should be responsive and accessible to user.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<script src="theme/assets/js/jquery/jquery-2.2.3.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="Start"> <b> Start </b> </div>
<div id="Stop"> <b> Stop </b> </div>
<br><br> <div id="random"> </div>
<br><br> <input id="input" type="text" size="500">
<script>
// how to manage without global variables? how to pass variables to the function
var flag = false;
var charstr = "zxcvbnm,\.\/asdfghjkl;\'qwertyuiop[]\\`ąčęėįšųū90\-ž";
var charstrL = charstr.length;
$("#Start").click( function() {
$("#lesson").text("clicked Start");
flag =true;
$(this).val('flag');
while(flag){
setInterval(function() { // this code is executed every 500 milliseconds:
var rand = Math.random();
var num = Math.floor( ( Math.random() * (charstr.length -1) ) );
$("#lesson").text(charstr[num]);
}, 500);
}//while
}); // $("#Start").click( function() {
$("#Stop").click( function(){
flag=false;
$(this).val('flag');
alert('clicked Stop');
});
</script>
</body>
</html>
2 answers
solution1
1 2016-05-15 16:27:37
You can't make a while loop run in the background if it's doing DOM manipulation, because there's only one main UI thread in browser JavaScript.
You also probably don't want to, because this code:
while (flag) {
setInterval(function() { // this code is executed every 500 milliseconds:
var rand = Math.random();
var num = Math.floor( ( Math.random() * (charstr.length -1) ) );
$("#lesson").text(charstr[num]);
}, 500);
}
continuously adds additional timers to call that code every 500ms. In a very short period of time, your browser will become completely non-responsive.
Just set up setInterval , and have the code inside decide whether to run based on flag :
setInterval(function() { // this code is executed every 500 milliseconds:
if (flag) {
var rand = Math.random();
var num = Math.floor( ( Math.random() * (charstr.length -1) ) );
$("#lesson").text(charstr[num]);
}
}, 500);
You can have several of those, though if you have a lot of them you might consider having fewer and just having them do more than one thing each time.
solution2
0 2016-05-15 19:27:54
This is a working example for a program prompting user to input characters utilizing setInterval function instead of while loop . The application is to improve the typing skills.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<script src="theme/assets/js/jquery/jquery-2.2.3.min.js"> </script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="Start"> <b> Start </b> </div>
<br><div id="lesson"> </div>
<input id="input" type="text" size="500">
<span id="Stop"> Stop </span>
<span id="Clear">
Clear </span>
<script>
// how to manage without global variables ? how to pass vaiables to the function
var flag = false;
var charstr = "zxcvbnm,\.\/asdfghjkl;\'qwertyuiop[]\\`ąčęėįšųū90\-ž";
var charstrL = charstr.length;
$("#Start").click( function() {
flag =true;
$(this).val('flag');
if(flag){
setInterval( function() { // this code is executed every 500 milliseconds:
if (flag) {
var rand = Math.random();
var num = Math.floor( ( Math.random() * (charstr.length -1) ) );
$("#lesson").text("\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0"+charstr[num]);
} //if (flag) {
}, 500);
} // if (flag)
}); // $("#Start").click( function() {
/*
// does not work, because creates infinite loops, each with 500ms waiting time.
// In miliseconds this accumulates to hours and thousands of loops generated usign while
while(flag){
setInterval(function() { // this code is executed every 500 milliseconds:
var rand = Math.random();
var num = Math.floor( ( Math.random() * (charstr.length -1) ) );
$("#lesson").text(charstr[num]);
}, 500);
}//while */
//
$("#Stop").click( function(){
flag=false;
$(this).val('flag');
});
$("#Clear").click( function(){
$("#input").val('');
$("#lesson").text(' ');
});
</script>
</body>
</html>
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