Execute callback when timer is set to zero about timer.jquery

[walmik]

HI Wayne!

Thanks for using this plugin! About your query, in case the duration is 0, can you not directly call the callback function? So something like,

function startTimer(duration, cbk) {
    // Early return and callback in case duration is 0
    if(duration === 0) {
        return cbk();
    }

    // Use jQuery timer to defer cbk
    // If seconds are not provided, then they default to 0
    $('#Elapsed').timer({
        duration: duration + 's',
        callback: cbk
    });
} 

Lemme know if that can work in your specific use case. If not, we can go into it further :)

[wgpalexander]

Hi Walmik, firstly thanks for the prompt response. As you can probably tell I'm learning Javascript so thanks for your patience! Your example of simply returning the callback works - not sure why I didn't think of that.

For info the default "Time Up!" alert for countdowns is a touch invasive - maybe in future it could be a property option like duration, callback etc.? As it stands I just commented the alert out in the JS file and it works brilliantly.

[walmik]

You re very welcome Wayne :)
About the alert being used as a sample callback, I agree with you. I guess I just wanted to visually demonstrate how the callback can be used. I reckon anybody wanting to use that feature will have their own custom function to overwrite it with anyway.