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Re: How to write a browser based timer

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"Scott Sauyet" <scott.sauyet@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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>" Cal Who" wrote:
>> I need to know what to read about.
>>
>> I want to write a browser based timer such that when one presses some key 
>> it
>> starts incrementing and pressing another key pauses it.
>> [ ... ]
>>
>> What I need to know is what would be an appreciated language to study.
>>
>> Is Javascript the way to go?
>
> I assume you mean "appropriate language".

Yes - must be I wasn't careful with the spell checker.
You know what in your note below was most helpful?
The word "stopwatch"!
Somehow when I checked before posting that did not occur to me so I missed 
the most appropriate hits.

Thanks

>
> You can certainly do what you want with Javascript.  And it shouldn't
> be difficult.
>
> You need to look at three features of Javascript:
>
>    - Keyboard Events, to listen for the keystrokes that matter
>    - setTimeout or setInterval to occasionally check the time
>    - DOM manipulation to display the results
>
> Alternately, you can probably search the web for Javascript stopwatch
> implementations and find one that either does exactly what you want or
> could easily be modified to do so.
>
>  -- Scott 

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How to write a browser based timer " Cal Who" <CalWhoNOSPAM@roadrunner.com> - 2012-02-21 15:50 -0500
  Re: How to write a browser based timer Scott Sauyet <scott.sauyet@gmail.com> - 2012-02-21 13:04 -0800
    Re: How to write a browser based timer Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-02-21 13:45 -0800
      Re: How to write a browser based timer "Evertjan." <exjxw.hannivoort@interxnl.net> - 2012-02-21 22:40 +0000
        Re: How to write a browser based timer Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-02-21 15:04 -0800
          Re: How to write a browser based timer "Evertjan." <exjxw.hannivoort@interxnl.net> - 2012-02-21 23:27 +0000
            Re: How to write a browser based timer Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-02-21 16:08 -0800
              Re: How to write a browser based timer "Evertjan." <exjxw.hannivoort@interxnl.net> - 2012-02-22 15:41 +0000
                Re: How to write a browser based timer Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-02-22 09:19 -0800
                Re: How to write a browser based timer "Evertjan." <exjxw.hannivoort@interxnl.net> - 2012-02-22 21:55 +0000
                Re: How to write a browser based timer Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-02-22 15:01 -0800
        Re: How to write a browser based timer RobG <rgqld@iinet.net.au> - 2012-02-21 18:18 -0800
          Re: How to write a browser based timer Dr J R Stockton <reply1208@merlyn.demon.co.uk> - 2012-02-23 19:31 +0000
            Re: How to write a browser based timer Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-02-23 16:38 -0800
              Re: How to write a browser based timer Dr J R Stockton <reply1208@merlyn.demon.co.uk> - 2012-02-25 20:29 +0000
                Re: How to write a browser based timer "Evertjan." <exjxw.hannivoort@interxnl.net> - 2012-02-26 23:02 +0000
      Re: How to write a browser based timer Dr J R Stockton <jrs@merlyn.demon.co.uk> - 2012-02-22 18:51 +0000
    Re: How to write a browser based timer " Cal Who" <CalWhoNOSPAM@roadrunner.com> - 2012-02-23 10:23 -0500
      Re: How to write a browser based timer Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-02-23 22:13 +0100
        Re: How to write a browser based timer Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-02-24 09:41 +0100

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