Cannot Get vacancy.js To Work

[jamesthemonkeh]

I’ve found a cool neon sign jquery thing to use as the title of my little project, however I cannot get it to flash like in the demo.

Below are the links where I discovered it:

http://chuckyglitch.twbbs.org/novacancy/

This is my (unfinished) site:

http://www.worldofwinfield.co.uk/

Can anyone work out what I am missing? Normally it is a source file but they seem to be all there. I’m still very much a beginner so likely to be something dumb.

Thanks
James

[WolfShade]

You have to put the source of jQuery first, I believe.

Oh, and only once. Not twice. You’ve got a link to the CDN for jQuery, then it looks like you’re including a local version, too.

HTH,

[fretburner]

If you open your browser’s console, you’ll see you’re getting some errors. The first one is caused by the first line of your code.js file:

void setup() { 
  size(400, 400); 
} 

This isn’t valid syntax for declaring a function in JS. You want to be doing it one of two ways:

function setup() {
  size(400, 400);
}

or

var setup = function() {
  size(400, 400);
};

[RyanReese]

FYI, if you come from a Java background (which void is valid), then you should realize Javascript is completely different .

[Paul_Wilkins]

@RyanReese

FYI, if you come from a Java background (which void is valid), then you should realize Javascript is completely different .

Yes, sorry @jamesthemonkeh, but Java is not a language that we deal with here.

For help with programming Java, I suggest that you look at one of the Java forums such as Java Programming Forums or Java Forums

[jamesthemonkeh]

Thanks guys. It doesn’t actually get the flashing sign working still, but at least some other errors are fixed!

[Paul_Wilkins]

@jamesthemonkeh

but at least some other errors are fixed!

I’m glad that you qualified that with “some”. Here are some more errors from your page to get fixed:

code.js:1 Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token {
jquery.novacancy.js:266 Uncaught ReferenceError: jQuery is not defined
www.worldofwinfield.co.uk/:20 Uncaught TypeError: $(…).novacancy is not a function

[jamesthemonkeh]

Well I’m massively a beginner so takes me ages to work out the simplist things so there will always be errors! For now anyway.

[fretburner]

The error I get now is:

Uncaught TypeError: $(...).novacancy is not a function

This is because, as WolfShade pointed out above, you’re loading a second copy of jQuery after the novacancy.js plugin. If you remove the second jQuery script tag, it should fix the error.