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Daniele Sassoli
Daniele Sassoli

Reputation: 898

Angularjs $timeout generating infinite loop

Hy I have a div that simulates an input file button. To achieve this I did 

angular.element('#fileInput').trigger('click');

but this generated an Apply already in progress error, googling around I found that this could easily be avoided putting the code inside a timeout. 

timeOut = $timeout(function(){
        angular.element('#fileInput').trigger('click');
    });

And as an effect that really solved the problem, but $timeout generates an infinite loop opening infinite file dialogs if my pop-up block is disabled. In the AngularJS docs you can clearly read that $timeout is a wrapper of setTimeout wich should only generate one call to the callback function, so why is it generating an infinite loop? However, trying to solve the situtation I decided to kill the timer after the first call, but I couldn't manage, 

timeOut = $timeout(function(){
    angular.element('#fileInput').trigger('click');
});
timeOut.then( function( ){$timeout.cancel(timeOut);
    }
);

I'm getting quite stuck in this situation... I'm I just missing something obvious things? Someone has any idea's? thank's

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3532

Answers (1)

pedrommuller
pedrommuller

Reputation: 16056

why instead of using a $timeout you try to us an $interval and set it to run one time?

var interval =  $interval(function() {
    angular.element('#fileInput').trigger('click');
}, 100,1);

Upvotes: 2

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