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Update a status object while in a tight loop ?

A page has a long running computation loop.
While in the loop I want to update a status object so I know how
things are going in the computation.

This is what I have, but it doesn't seem to update my status object.

Thanks,
Richard

<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript">

function compute() {

var status = document.getElementById ('status')
var result = document.getElementById ('result')

var j = 0;
var n = 1e6;
var p = n/10;

// tight loop
for (var i=0;i<n;i++) {
// if (j++ > p) { j=0; status.value = i; }
if (j++ > p) { j=0; setTimeout ( function(){status.value=i} , 1) }
}

setTimeout ( function(){status.value='Compute'} , 1)

result.innerHTML = "Computation results " + i

return false
}

</script>
</head>
<body>
<form name='data'>
N <input name=N type=text value=5 size=4>
<input id=status type=submit value='Compute'
onClick="return compute(document.forms.data.N.value)"
>
</form>
<div id=result></div>
</body>
</html>

Re: Update a status object while in a tight loop ?

Richard A. DeVenezia wrote:
<snip>
> // tight loop
> for (var i=0;i<n;i++) {
> // if (j++ > p) { j=0; status.value = i; }
> if (j++ > p) { j=0; setTimeout ( function(){status.value=i} , 1) }

The setTimeout function is not able to interrupt executing code. No
execution scheduled within this function will get an opportunity to
happen until the - compute - function returns (along with the event
handler that called it).

<snip>
> </script>
> </head>
> <body>
> <form name='data'>
> N <input name=N type=text value=5 size=4>
> <input id=status type=submit value='Compute'
> onClick="return compute(document.forms.data.N.value)"
<snip> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
this.form.N.value

But the - compute - function has no parameters.

Richard.