I use ImgLikeOpera and Squid Caching Proxy to manage my bandwidth while on dialup. But, I can't set it to load one image at a time, so I had the bright idea to write a script that will open each image on a page one at a time in a new tab and then close them so that they'll be saved in my cache.
Script works great, added a start button so that I could control when it started... but can't figure out how to make a stop button that will interrupt the process. I tried a bunch of stuff and nothing works...
It seems like when it's in the loop it can't hear what's going on outside the loop...
I have a feeling that there is a very simple way to do this, but I'm getting frustrated. Isn't this what break or return is supposed to be for?
Here's the relevant parts of my script:
var box = document.createElement ('div');
box.id = 'mySelectBox';
document.body.appendChild (box);
box.innerHTML = 'click>';
var searchButton = document.createElement ('div');
searchButton.className = 'mySearchButton';
searchButton.textContent = 'Search and open';
box.insertBefore (searchButton, box.nextSibling);
var stopButton = document.createElement ('div');
stopButton.className = 'myStopButton';
stopButton.textContent = 'Stop';
box.insertBefore (stopButton, box.nextSibling);
var mytable = document.getElementById ('lair-sort-pets').getElementsByTagName ('img');
var linksToOpen = [];
var mywin2 = null;
function openpics () {
for (var J = 0, L = mytable.length; J < L; J++) {
linksToOpen.push (mytable[J].src); //-- Add URL to list
}
openLinksInSequence ();
};
function openLinksInSequence () {
if (mywin2) {
mywin2.close ();
mywin2 = null;
}
if (linksToOpen.length) {
var link = linksToOpen.shift ();
mywin2 = window.open (link, "my_win2");
mywin2.addEventListener ('load', openLinksInSequence, false);
}
}
searchButton.addEventListener ('click', openpics, true);
//stopButton.addEventListener ('click', , true);
How do I make the stop button actually stop any more links from loading?
Use a global state variable. Like so:
var okayToOpenLinks = true;
searchButton.addEventListener ('click', openpics);
stopButton.addEventListener ('click', stopLinkSequence);
function openpics () {
okayToOpenLinks = true;
if (linksToOpen.length === 0) {
for (var J = 0, L = mytable.length; J < L; J++) {
linksToOpen.push (mytable[J].src); //-- Add URL to list
}
}
openLinksInSequence ();
};
function stopLinkSequence () {
okayToOpenLinks = false;
}
function openLinksInSequence () {
if (mywin2) {
mywin2.close ();
mywin2 = null;
}
if (okayToOpenLinks && linksToOpen.length) {
var link = linksToOpen.shift ();
mywin2 = window.open (link, "my_win2");
mywin2.addEventListener ('load', openLinksInSequence, false);
}
}
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