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Milo-J
Milo-J

Reputation: 1108

jQuery - Timer will not delay

In my game I have added a snowflake icon to freeze the time for 3 seconds. I have added this to the script

$(".character").click(function() {
    if ($(this).hasClass("freeze")) {
    $('#timer').delay(3000);
}

Any ideas why it will not work?

Here is a fiddle.. http://jsfiddle.net/pUwKb/30/

Upvotes: 1

Views: 164

Answers (1)

Maxim Krizhanovsky
Maxim Krizhanovsky

Reputation: 26719

You missunderstood delay. You have to clear the countdown interval, and set timeout after which the countdown interval will be activated again

$(".character").click(function() {
    if ($(this).hasClass("freeze")) {
    window.clearInterval(countdown);
    window.setTimeout(function(){
      countdown = window.setInterval(...)
    }, 3000);
}

and you'll have to name the function in order to do so

as for the $.delay it's used to delay execution of jQuery animations

Upvotes: 3

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