Hi everyone,
I am working on a program that will allow a user to enter some customer information including name/acct number, call back number, and reason for call back, and time of call back. What I want this to do is then display the customer info (up to five customers at once) on a page. But I want a Javascript alert message to popup when the time of call back the user entered matches the correct time. What I can't think of is how I will have it check for the time (i.e. a while loop?) and I am wondering if anyone knows if this will use too much of the resources and slow up the computer. Thanks in advance.
Nick
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Research JavaScript's "setTimeout" method. It calls a function you specify at specific time intervals. Presumably that function, which you'll need to write, will check through an array of "messages" to see if any are due.
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After much tinkering with it, I got it to work! I don't know why I was having so much trouble with it. Thank you.
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Hi everyone,
I used the setTimeout() function and got that working perfectly, thank you. But the problem I am having with it is that It doesn't call my function until the time has been met, if I change anything in the fields of the form, when the timer ends, it will display the changed material. Is there some kind of an object I can make that would keep track of up to 5 different reminders? I was thinking of like a queue object, but I'm not sure how(if I even can) implement it in javascript. Any ideas? Thank you for your help in advance. The .html page I have created is attached below. Thank you.
Nick
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>eNotes</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
<!--
// eNotes. Created by Nicholas 'Joe' Nisi. 2005
// postNote() timeIt()
function displayAlert()
{
var name = document.notepad.acct.value;
var num = document.notepad.number.value;
var time = document.notepad.time.value;
var rsn = document.notepad.reason.value;
var i=0;
alert("Call " + name + " back at " + num + " for " + rsn)
}
function convertTime(time)
{
return time*60000;
}
function printTime()
{
}
-->
</script>
</head>
<body>
<table width="350" border="2" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bordercolor="#000000">
<tr>
<td><table width="376" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1">
<tr>
<td><div align="center"><strong>Cox Reminders</strong></div>
<br>
</td>
</tr>
</table></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><form name="notepad">
Name/Account Number:
<input type="text" name="acct" maxlength="30">
<p>
Call Back Number:
<input type="text" name="number" maxlength="10">
<p>
Call back in:
<input type="text" name="time" size="4"> minute(s)
</p>
<p>
Reason for Call Back:
<input type="text" name="reason">
</p>
</p>
<input type="button" onclick="setTimeout('displayAlert()', convertTime(document.notepad.time.value))" value="Submit">
<input type="reset">
</form> </td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
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