RE: XForms timer

Why not simply extend dispatch as in:

<xforms:dispatch name="event-of-choice" repeat="1000" limit="5000" />

or, to allow dynamic computation and adjustment, the values could be XPaths
which allow both the repeat and limit values to adjust based on current
application state.



Scott Shattuck
Architect, Team TIBET
ss@technicalpursuit.com
720.220.0159


-----Original Message-----
From: www-forms-request@w3.org [mailto:www-forms-request@w3.org] On Behalf
Of Erik Bruchez
Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 11:58 AM
To: Xforms W3C WG
Subject: Re: XForms timer


What about:

<xforms:timer id="my-timer" timeout="1000" repeat="true"/>

The timer will just fire an event, for example "xforms-timer", when
necessary.

<xforms:timer id="my-timer" timeout="1000" repeat="true">
   <xforms:send ev:event="xforms-timer" submission="background-save"/>
</xforms:timer>

You probably need actions and/or events to start and stop a timer as well.

But it looks easier than the Javascript below, no? ;-)

-Erik

Allan Beaufour wrote:
> On 4/26/06, Erik Bruchez <ebruchez@orbeon.com> wrote:
>> If you can't do it directly with XForms, how do you do it, with
Javascript?
> 
> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
>       xmlns:ev="http://www.w3.org/2001/xml-events"
>       xmlns:xforms="http://www.w3.org/2002/xforms">
>   <head>
>     <title>Timer</title>
>     <script type="text/javascript">
>       function timer() {
>         var ev = document.createEvent("Events");
>         ev.initEvent("increment", true, true);
> 	document.getElementById("setv").dispatchEvent(ev);
> 	window.setTimeout(timer, 1000);
>       }
> 
>       window.setTimeout(timer, 1000);
>     </script>
>     <xforms:model>
>       <xforms:instance xmlns="">
>         <data xmlns="">
>           <counter>1</counter>
>         </data>
>       </xforms:instance>
>       <xforms:setvalue id="setv" ref="counter" value=". + 1"
> 		       ev:event="increment"/>
>     </xforms:model>
>   </head>
>   <body>
>     <xforms:output ref="counter">
>       <xforms:label>Counter: </xforms:label>
>     </xforms:output>
>   </body>
> </html>
> 
> --
> ... Allan
> 

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