how to pause a jquery while loop with conditional pause length

Question

I need to pause a while loop for a certain amount of time based on a condition

var i = 2

while (i) {
    if (i == 2) {
        //pause loop for 5 seconds
        //execute function1();
    } else {
        //pause loop for 4 seconds
        //execute function2();
    }
}

How could I achieve this. Thank you

That makes little sense, why do you need the while loop at all, and what's the `do` supposed to do ? — adeneo, Nov 14 '14 at 15:47
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3583724/how-do-i-add-a-delay-in-a-javascript-loop — epascarello, Nov 14 '14 at 15:54

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 14 '14 at 15:54

You could do something like this:

var i = 2,
    method1 = function() {
        //do your thing
        start();
    },
    method2 = function() {
        //do your thing
        start();
    },
    start = function() {
        if( i && i == 2 ) {
            setTimeout(method1,5000);
        }
        else if( i ) {
            setTimeout(method2,4000);
        }
    }
;

You need to call the start() method at the end of the delayed methods. This way, you avoid a huge number of setTimeout(method1,5000) being called before the 5 seconds is even up.

You beat me to it :) Here's a fiddle for what I did though, basically the same thing. http://jsfiddle.net/ubq2Lqzv/ — Wet Noodles, Nov 14 '14 at 16:01

score -1 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 14 '14 at 15:48

-1

use the setTimeout() to achieve what you want.

http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/met_win_settimeout.asp

answered Nov 14 '14 at 15:48

Mathieu Labrie Parent

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when I use timeout it pauses the execution but continues the loop all that happens istheirs 000's of functions executing killing the browser. – Barry Hamilton Nov 14 '14 at 15:53

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