How to stop a setTimeout loop?

问题

I'm trying to build a loading indicator with a image sprite and I came up with this function

function setBgPosition() {
   var c = 0;
    var numbers = [0, -120, -240, -360, -480, -600, -720];
    function run() {
       Ext.get('common-spinner').setStyle('background-position', numbers[c++] + 'px 0px');
        if (c<numbers.length)
        {
            setTimeout(run, 200);
        }else
        {
            setBgPosition();
        }
    }
    setTimeout(run, 200);
}

so the out put is looks like this

http://jsfiddle.net/TTkre/

I had to use setBgPosition(); inside else to keep this running in a loop so now my problem is how to stop this loop once I want [load finished]?

回答1:

setTimeout returns a timer handle, which you can use to stop the timeout with clearTimeout.

So for instance:

function setBgPosition() {
    var c = 0,
        timer = 0;
    var numbers = [0, -120, -240, -360, -480, -600, -720];
    function run() {
        Ext.get('common-spinner').setStyle('background-position', numbers[c++] + 'px 0px');
        if (c >= numbers.length) {
            c = 0;
        }
        timer = setTimeout(run, 200);
    }
    timer = setTimeout(run, 200);

    return stop;

    function stop() {
        if (timer) {
            clearTimeout(timer);
            timer = 0;
        }
}

So you'd use that as:

var stop = setBgPosition();
// ...later, when you're ready to stop...
stop();

Note that rather than having setBgPosition call itself again, I've just had it set c back to 0. Otherwise, this wouldn't work. Also note that I've used 0 as a handle value for when the timeout isn't pending; 0 isn't a valid return value from setTimeout so it makes a handy flag.

This is also one of the (few) places I think you'd be better off with setInterval rather than setTimeout. setInterval repeats. So:

function setBgPosition() {
    var c = 0;
    var numbers = [0, -120, -240, -360, -480, -600, -720];
    function run() {
        Ext.get('common-spinner').setStyle('background-position', numbers[c++] + 'px 0px');
        if (c >= numbers.length) {
            c = 0;
        }
    }
    return setInterval(run, 200);
}

Used like this:

var timer = setBgPosition();
// ...later, when you're ready to stop...
clearInterval(timer);

All of the above notwithstanding, I'd want to find a way to make setBgPosition stop things itself, by detecting that some completion condition has been satisfied.

回答2:

I know this is an old question, I'd like to post my approach anyway. This way you don't have to handle the 0 trick that T. J. Crowder expained.

var keepGoing = true;

function myLoop() {
    // ... Do something ...

    if(keepGoing) {
        setTimeout(myLoop, 1000);
    }
}

function startLoop() {
    keepGoing = true;
    myLoop();
}

function stopLoop() {
    keepGoing = false;
}

回答3:

You need to use a variable to track "doneness" and then test it on every iteration of the loop. If done == true then return.

var done = false;

function setBgPosition() {
    if ( done ) return;
    var c = 0;
    var numbers = [0, -120, -240, -360, -480, -600, -720];
    function run() {
        if ( done ) return;
        Ext.get('common-spinner').setStyle('background-position', numbers[c++] + 'px 0px');
        if (c<numbers.length)
        {
            setTimeout(run, 200);
        }else
        {
            setBgPosition();
        }
    }
    setTimeout(run, 200);
}

setBgPosition(); // start the loop

setTimeout( function(){ done = true; }, 5000 ); // external event to stop loop

回答4:

SIMPLIEST WAY TO HANDLE TIMEOUT LOOP

function myFunc (terminator = false) {
    if(terminator) {
        clearTimeout(timeOutVar);
    } else {
        // do something
        timeOutVar = setTimeout(function(){myFunc();}, 1000);
    }
}   
myFunc(true); //  -> start loop
myFunc(false); //  -> end loop

回答5:

As this is tagged with the extjs tag it may be worth looking at the extjs method: http://docs.sencha.com/extjs/6.2.0/classic/Ext.Function.html#method-interval

This works much like setInterval, but also takes care of the scope, and allows arguments to be passed too:

function setBgPosition() {
    var c = 0;
    var numbers = [0, -120, -240, -360, -480, -600, -720];
    function run() {
       Ext.get('common-spinner').setStyle('background-position', numbers[c++] + 'px 0px');
        if (c<numbers.length){
            c=0;
        }
    }
    return Ext.Function.interval(run,200);
}

var bgPositionTimer = setBgPosition();

when you want to stop you can use clearInterval to stop it

clearInterval(bgPositionTimer);

An example use case would be:

Ext.Ajax.request({
    url: 'example.json',

    success: function(response, opts) {
        clearInterval(bgPositionTimer);
    },

    failure: function(response, opts) {
        console.log('server-side failure with status code ' + response.status);
        clearInterval(bgPositionTimer);
    }
});

回答6:

I am not sure, but might be what you want:

var c = 0;
function setBgPosition()
{
    var numbers = [0, -120, -240, -360, -480, -600, -720];
    function run()
    {
        Ext.get('common-spinner').setStyle('background-position', numbers[c++] + 'px 0px');
        if (c<=numbers.length)
        {
            setTimeout(run, 200);
        }
        else
        {
            Ext.get('common-spinner').setStyle('background-position', numbers[0] + 'px 0px');
        }
    }
    setTimeout(run, 200);
}
setBgPosition();

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8443151/how-to-stop-a-settimeout-loop