Posted by ogiebobo on February 6, 2009 at 2:01am
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| Project: | Countdown |
| Version: | 6.x-1.0 |
| Component: | Code |
| Category: | bug report |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | active |
Issue Summary
I noticed that when using it for a count up function, the code does not count up, it counts down once the page is loaded.
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#1
I was able to get it to work by changing the value of _countdown_direction to 1, instead of -1 in the countdown.js file. Should the code do this automatically if the date set is in the past?
#2
Did anyone got this working? It seems that the whole .js is prepared to work with a negative _countdown_direction, it just have to be set somewhere.
I'm not sure how to compare the current time and the displayed time in JS thought. Anyone?
#3
Ah, I found the bug.
The problem is that countdown.js checks for a string in the html..
else if (thisChild.nodeName == '#text') {if (thisChild.nodeValue.indexOf(' since') >= 0) {
_countdown_direction = 1;
this.objDirText = thisChild;
}
else if (thisChild.nodeValue.indexOf(' until') >= 0) {
this.objDirText = thisChild;
}
}
I changed the output of my html by overriding countdown.tpl.php
And in that file I changed the default string '@hours, @minutes, @seconds since @event' to 'You are @hours, @minutes and @seconds overdue'.
Changing the word since to overdue solved my problem, but it would be much better if the JS doesn't rely on textual strings in the code..
#4
At least... you should wrap a Drupal.t() around it so these strings are translatable and the countup still works in all languages.