client timer??

[GaryB]

I want to put a control on a web page that will trigger an autopostback
event in a period of time, say 10 seconds. Is there any such thing as a
client timer? Like a button that will push itself 10 seconds after it is
created.
Thanks,
G

 

[Steven Cheng[MSFT]]

Hi Gary,

From your description, you are wanting to build a web component which can
make the page post back itself once every serveral seconds,yes?

There does exist some means to do such task, you can try the following
means:
1. The standard html <meta> tag can help set to make a page refresh it self
constantly by a certain period of time.

#HTML META refresh tag
http://webdesign.about.com/cs/metatags/a/aa080300a.htm

2. The "window.setTimeout" and "window.setInterval" can help call a
function after a certain period or repeatedly by a period. That is
something like a clienttimer, you may have a look at the following links:

#Javascript window.setTimeout
http://www.devguru.com/Technologies/ecmascript/quickref/win_settimeout.html

#Javascript window.setInterval
http://www.devguru.com/Technologies/ecmascript/quickref/win_setInterval.html

Hope helps.

Regards,

Steven Cheng
Microsoft Online Support

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