javascript alert box in custom html item

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11-02-2011, 05:37 PM
jzadra

javascript alert box in custom html item

I have a custom item html form that I need to automatically submit after a given duration. I've successfully written a javascript that submits the form based on the duration time specified in the medialab duration variable, but I also want to alert the user that their time is up before the submission occurs so that the item doesn't seem to randomly change.

The code for the alert box and submit function works fine by itself, but when I run it through ML, only the submit timer works, the alert box is nowhere to be seen.

Here is my code:

[CODE]<script>
function alert_and_submit()
{
alert("Out of time. Please hit OK");
document.creativityform.submit()
}
setTimeout("alert_and_submit()", <ml.d>000);

</script>[/CODE]
11-02-2011, 05:44 PM
jzadra

Cancel that. The problem is that ML is incorrectly using the "d" variable to skip the html page after the specified time, rather than passing it to the <ml.d> placeholder in the html file.

This doesn't make much sense. Putting up a custom html item, and skipping without submitting the form, is pretty useless. Am I missing something?
11-15-2011, 07:25 PM
jzadra

Anyone?.....
11-23-2011, 08:49 AM
Rene Kopietz

hi jzadra,

we exclusively use custom items and use javascript to time the appearance of the button as well as the presentation of text and so on.

show button:
[CODE]function showButton(){
var timeOut = 50000;
setTimeout('document.getElementById("button").style.display = "block"', timeOut);
};[/CODE]

timed presentation:
[CODE]
<body onload="window.setTimeout(advance, 5000, true);">

<div id="first"><p>Some kind of instruction</p></div>


<div id="second"><p>Some kind of instruction</p></div>


<form method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="whatever"/>
<input type="submit" value="submit"/>
</form>
[/CODE]

I am not sure if this is what you are looking for but perhaps it'll do:)

Best
Rene