Thanks so much for the help! On Thursday, March 3, 2016 at 12:46:02 PM UTC-5, William Hermans wrote: > > *I'm still a bit confused about while loops vs setInterval() though. Like >> I vaguely get that there is a difference between the two but I don't really >> understand javascript all that well. * >> >> *Why does setInterval() work while the while loop does not? What is the >> code if I wanted to implement my own setInterval() function?* >> > > Here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/729921/settimeout-or-setinterval > is a good explanation of what setInterval(), and setTimeout() *are*. But > again, Javascript is an event driven language, which in this context is an > incredible strength. setInterval(), and setTimeout() are events( or > callbacks if you prefer ). They're meant to "fire" when a certain > condition has been met, and execute a callback function. These are all but > guaranteed to execute. > > On the opposite side of things. while is just a loop. A loop which may > repeat so often is actually overwhelms the code that is meant to run . . > .But in fact I'm not 100% sure what the problem may be. I have not looked > through every bit of related code, and quite honestly I won't either. My > instinct does tell me that there is a glitch in the bonescript code, and > just willy nilly running that code in a loop is the root cause. > > On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 5:56 AM, Dennis Lee Bieber <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> On Wed, 2 Mar 2016 21:02:38 -0800 (PST), Audrey >> <[email protected] <javascript:>> declaimed the following: >> >> >Hi sorry, yeah no I did actually use >> > >> >b.analogRead('P9_36', printStatus); >> > >> >although I did write it here as just analogRead('P9_36', printStatus); >> > >> >So I don't think that's the issue, although good point. >> > >> >> As gets pointed out in comp.lang.python quite often: >> >> Always use cut&paste to avoid transcription errors that cause >> others to >> go off in the wrong direction... <G> >> -- >> Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN >> [email protected] <javascript:> HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/ >> >> -- >> For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "BeagleBoard" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > >
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