Thank you, that did the trick.

--Marc

On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 5:00 PM, Scott Hunter <shun...@nycap.rr.com> wrote:
> You need single-quotes around
> flash.fadeOut("slow")
>
> Otherwise, as you have seen, it gets executed immediately instead of after a
> delay.
>
>
> On Tuesday, October 18, 2016 at 9:35:30 AM UTC-4, Marc Smith wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm relatively new to JS but the strange quote character at the
>> beginning (I thought it was a back-tick, but doesn't appear it is) and
>> single quote at the end in that line don't look right to me -- is that
>> correct? I tried the code with Jim's change of using ".w2p_flash" but
>> it still doesn't work for me.
>>
>> This is what the block of JS from web2py.js looks like currently:
>> --snip--
>>        /*helper for flash messages*/
>>        flash: function(message, status) {
>>          var flash = $('.w2p_flash');
>>          web2py.hide_flash();
>>          flash.html(message).addClass(status);
>>          if(flash.html()) flash.append('<span id="closeflash"> &times;
>> </span>').slideDown();
>>        },
>>        hide_flash: function() {
>>          $('.w2p_flash').fadeOut(0).html('');
>>        },
>> --snip--
>>
>> I tried adding this line:
>> setTimeout(flash.fadeOut("slow"),5000);
>>
>> But the message fades in and out in about a second, and in Chrome's
>> developer panel, I see a "(program):1 Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected
>> identifier" error.
>>
>> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>>
>> --Marc
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 6:41 PM, Jim Brouzoulis
>> <jim.bro...@chalmers.se> wrote:
>> > Thank you very much for your help! (...and sorry for the late reply)
>> >
>> > It didn't work at first but then I noticed a typo: the class should be
>> > '.w2p_flash'.
>> >
>> > Regards
>> > // Jim
>> >
>> >
>> > Den måndag 11 juli 2016 kl. 10:49:08 UTC+2 skrev Massimiliano:
>> >>
>> >> Hi Jim,
>> >> I’m doing it in this way:
>> >>
>> >> Edit static/web2py.js search for /*helper for flash messages*/
>> >>
>> >> and add this command:
>> >>
>> >> setTimeout(‘jQuery(".flash").fadeOut("slow")',5000);
>> >>
>> >> just after:
>> >>
>> >> if (flash.html()) flash.append('<span id="closeflash"> &times;
>> >> </span>').slideDown();
>> >>
>> >> Adjust 5000 that stands for 5 secods to your needs.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 6:00 PM, Jim Brouzoulis <jim.bro...@chalmers.se>
>> >> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> Hi everyone,
>> >>>
>> >>> Can I easily customise the web2py.js file to automatically hide/fade
>> >>> out
>> >>> the flash message after some given time (like a few seconds) instead
>> >>> of
>> >>> clicking on it? If so, how?
>> >>> I have a feeling that the solution is probably not that complicated
>> >>> but
>> >>> my js-skills aren't very impressive :)
>> >>>
>> >>> Regards
>> >>> // Jim
>> >>>
>> >>> --
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>> >>> - http://web2py.com
>> >>> - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation)
>> >>> - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code)
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