[thelist] Actual Ajax question WAS: AJAX only mailing list

Anthony Baratta anthony at baratta.com
Wed Jul 11 22:48:10 CDT 2007


Brent Eades wrote:
  > I'm with you there. Which leads to a question :) How does one tell the
> XMLhttpRequest object to turn the hell off, once it's retrieved the
> content it was instructed to?

You need to turn off the timer:

setInterval("updateInfo()", 3000);

by using

clearInterval();

But in order to so this you need the handle of the timer you set:

objTimer = setInterval("updateInfo()", 3000);
...blah blah blah...
clearInterval(objTimer );

More info:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms536749.aspx




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