VBS using a java script delay timer

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June 26th, 2002, 05:04 PM
LegacyBoy

VBS using a java script delay timer

Hi all I am just looking for a little assistance with a web page that I am designing for tracking tickets at work.
Bassically I need a pop up window to come up after 30 minutes expires,

But I don't want a continius loop tieing up my cpu, and I want to track multiple tickets,
After much research I have found no real solution to making a timer in VBS.
But I have found that I can use java in vbs, but I have not found much more information then that.

I hope some one out there has an idea how to make a java timer to go off after 30 minutes, and add it to my vbs code,
here is what I have so far,

I know there is not much there but any suggestions would be nice,

Thanx

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<HTML>

<INPUT TYPE="BUTTON" NAME="button0" VALUE="Enter Ticket Number">

<INPUT TYPE="edit" NAME="txttick1" VALUE=""&GT;> ' this is the ticket numbet
<INPUT TYPE="edit" NAME="txttime1" VALUE=""&GT;> 'the time the ticket was added
<INPUT TYPE="edit" NAME="txtcount1" VALUE=""&GT;>
' I would like this to have a count down from 30 minutes in it

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="VBScript" >
Dim min1

Sub button0_onclick

ticketnum = InputBox("Please enter the ticket number to be tracked.")
txttick1.value=ticketnum

End Sub

</SCRIPT >

</HTML>
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Thanks, I'll see if I can figure that out,
June 26th, 2002, 06:29 PM
jethro

Re: VBS using a java script delay timer

Well, this is how you use JavaScript delays:

Code:

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> setTimeout("alert()", 1000); </SCRIPT>

The alert() bit is whatever function you want to put in there, and the 1000 is in miliseconds.

Hope that helps.
June 26th, 2002, 06:40 PM
Proud

Just a note: Javascript is a html related web based script, while Java is for Applets, Servlets and full applications, it's a complete programming language :)
June 26th, 2002, 07:43 PM
LegacyBoy

Thanks for the time out code,

And thanks I was well aware that it was for html I am making the tool with VB script and JAVA Script so it can just sit on the H drive and be accessed from anywere :brickwall
June 26th, 2002, 08:20 PM
Guus

Proud is right, there's a huge diffence between java and javascript (one word). I actually deleted a reference to Thread.sleep(long) here :)
June 26th, 2002, 10:04 PM
Sandsword

Why don't you use the javascript above to call the vb script:
<SCRIPT language="JavaScript">

</SCRIPT>
June 27th, 2002, 12:49 PM
LegacyBoy

thanks for the help I got it working Just got to work out the cosmetics,

Thanks
Guys,