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[Zumbro]

Hi,
How do I implement a functionality where something is done over and over while I press the mousedown on for example a button and stop that something on mouseup.

I can't just do a while loop in a function coz that locks the browser completely.. Help please..!

 

[GIGN]

Yeah while loops are bad - you can use setInterval, or setTimeout.

setInterval("codeSegment",timeInMilliseconds);

e.g. setInterval("someFunction()",1000);

calls someFunction() every second. Make sure the code segment is a string. If what you want to call has arguments, you will have to make it into strings.