Help on Sleep behaviour
I 'm trying to debounce text input storage for a specific period of time e .g . 3s (3000ms ) and after that time passes , append an object to an array with the text content . I have an on input event that gets an element by id and the textContent and stores it in a variable . All good . After 3s , I then take that text content , store it in an object and append it to an array . Weirdly , after 3s , it adds an object per character press . For example , if I type "The " , it will append 3 objects to the array after the tick . Is that expected ? If so , how would I only add the one object after 3s . The goal is that I 'm debouncing continuous typing , however when there is a pause , I want to update my array (change buffer /history stack ) so that I can capture all of the continuous typing up until the pause . I can 't use other events like on blur , focus out , etc . , to update the array because I want to remain focused on the current element and continue typing after my pause . No , if I type "The " within 3s , after 3 seconds I 'll get 3 objects all with "The " as the content . I think it 's because on input (like key down , etc . ) , an event is fired , so all it 's doing is delaying an update for each key event . If I removed the sleep and just did the update , then I 'd get the same result (for each key press ) instantly . Instead of 3 objects containing "The " , I 'd get [{"T"},{"Th"},{"The"}] , which is expected . I need a way to clear the timeout as I 'm typing I think and then only trigger it if there is a 3s pause . There is no clearTimeout workflow option , so I need to think creatively /logically to get it to work I think . π€ π€― The last item in the array is a good shout (hadn 't thought of that but makes sense ) , although you 're adding extra logic to handle the effect of the timeout . Ideally , a way to clear the timeout would be a better way to handle it . I was thinking of a boolean to fashion some kind of clearTimeout -style operation - just got to work it out . π Hi Tom ! I would create a custom action for debounce . The problem in your setup is that you don 't cancel the previous sleeps . So all actions will fire . A debounce typically cancels the previous timeout (sleep ) so that it does not fire . I believe that with toddle native Workflows you cannot cancel the sleep Thanks , Max . I was hoping to fashion some way in toddle but - as you say - it 's not possible to cancel previous sleeps , so it would be a bit hacky to try and work around it . I was thinking of using a boolean e .g . set Timeout variable to be false or something on input and then sleep for x time and only trigger update if Timeout was true but figuring out the logic is tricky and it 's probably simpler to create a custom action (and submit an improvement suggestion for Clear sleep or something like that ) . Appreciate the input from you both . π πͺ1π1
