Help me w/ my timer, please

[WebmasterCricket]

Is this the one in question?

<Script language='Javascript'>var rndNum = Math.floor(Math.random() * 10000);eval("var CDTDate" + rndNum + " = 'September 10, 2002 12:00:00 PM CST';");document.writeln("<form name='CDTform" + rndNum + "' action='Javascript:void(0);'>");document.writeln('<font size=2 color=darkblue>Lance\'s and Amy\'s first trip to the World (together)</font><br>');document.writeln("<input type=text value='' size=40 name='WrittenByJamesMVenglarikII'>");document.writeln("</form>");if (theFunction) theFunction += "var d = new Date();";else var theFunction = "var d = new Date();";theFunction += "var c = new Date('" + eval("CDTDate" + rndNum) + "');";theFunction += "var tzo = (c.getTimezoneOffset() - d.getTimezoneOffset()) * 60;";theFunction += "var diff = ((c - d)/1000) + tzo;";theFunction += "var days = Math.floor(diff / 86400);";theFunction += "var rem = diff - (days * 86400);";theFunction += "var hours = Math.floor(rem / 3600);";theFunction += "rem = rem - (hours * 3600);";theFunction += "var minutes = Math.floor(rem / 60);";theFunction += "rem = rem - (minutes * 60);";theFunction += "var seconds = Math.floor(rem);";theFunction += "if ((days < 0) | (hours < 0) | (minutes < 0) | (seconds < 0)) ";theFunction += "var out = 'Hanging out at the Castle';";theFunction += "else ";theFunction += "var out = ' ' + days + ' days ' + hours + ' hrs. ' + minutes + ' mins. ' + seconds + ' secs.';";theFunction += "document.forms.CDTform" + rndNum + ".elements.WrittenByJamesMVenglarikII.value = out;";setInterval(theFunction, 1000);</Script>

If so I may be able to fix it.

JC

 

[Psiklops]

JC: yes, that's the one. I think it was missing the backslashes in front of the single quotes that were in the text. Help would be appreciated, oh one-who-can-edit-others'-signatures

albiats: not sure why an error wasn't showing up - sometimes you can surpress the errors with settings in the browsers. I'm not sure why it would then not show up when posted into her signature, although I have seen instances where this would happen because the User put a whole bunch of smilies in their text. This causes a problem in that when the text is written back out, it wraps that code at a certain length (not sure what it is), and it was still in the text part, trying to write out the smilies.

Reducing the number of smilies to a few usually solves this problem.

I have seen Netscape Users not get the escape-code sequence copied over when they cut and paste, so I was thinking that that might have been the culprit, but I'm not sure why the generated code would be the exact same in her signature but still not work - the only thing I can think of is that something before the Countdown Timer in the signature caused this - e.g. non-closed text or some misplaced or forgotten tag.

Sorry I can't come up with more...

- Jim

 

[Psiklops]

Whoever just changed Amy's signature, it's now experiencing exactly what I was talking about: the single quotes aren't escaped...

- Jim

 

[WebmasterCricket]

It's the vB code that was already in her sig. This wasn't the first time it has happened, that's how I knew to look for it. If the vB code is changed to straight HTML then it works fine.

I haven't looked at a page source code to see what is actualy happening, but I will do so soon.

JC

 

[WebmasterCricket]

I'm assuming it's ok for everyone else too?

Jim, you must have loaded the page right before I swapped out the vB for the HTML.

JC

 

[WebmasterCricket]

Check this post Jim:

http://disboards.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=1856119#post1856119

I don't really want to use Amy as a Guneia (sp) pig.

JC

 

[AmyA]

Thank you so much, all of you, for your help! I freely admit that I am only semi-computer literate so forgive my following questions..

I have IE 5.5, Comcast cable modem, P4 computer. This is the only computer I post from. Did I do something to make my C&P not work correctly? I did compare it line for line, but since I am not at all familiar w/ programming language, I may have missed a \ here or there. Or, are my settings somehow causing the vB code to not work? Also, I am pretty sure I don't have my settings where error messages are suppressed, but I may. Finally I have not yet noticed a problem w/ my C&P before---could I have one that only shows up sporadically?

Ok, enough of the computer moron questions. Again, thanks for all of your help, and my timer now says exactly what I want it to say!

 

[WebmasterCricket]

We can't quite figure it out for sure so I'm certain you didn't do anything wrong at all.

I only knew how to fix it because this exact thing happened before.

JC

 

[AmyA]

Originally posted by Mr. J. Cricket

I don't really want to use Amy as a Guneia (sp) pig.

JC

I've been called worse before ! Feel free to use me as an example.

 

[Psiklops]

JC: the other thread did show an example of what I was talking about - the missing backslashes.

Amy: I don't think that it's anything you did at all. Right now I'm not sure why those characters didn't either copy over or weren't stored in the database properly.

- Jim