Welcome to the wonderful world of "closures" (which "double" as
"functions" in JavaScript), you've been using them already (perhaps
without know it) :).
The setTimeout function will actually take a function rather than a
string (which it then 'eval's):
function someFunction( obj ) {
var message = obj.find('#message');
setTimeout(
function() {
message.fadeOut( 'slow', function() { $(this).remove();
} );
}
, 5000
);
};
Some further reading on the subject of closures (the first few links
from a Google search for "javascript closures"):
http://www.jibbering.com/faq/faq_notes/closures.html
http://blog.morrisjohns.com/javascript_closures_for_dummies
Karl Rudd
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 6:20 AM, AsymF <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> For instance, say a function is passed an object and that function is
> supposed to set an event to fire on a timeout, how would I do it? Even
> more complicated, how would I do it if I needed to perform the action
> on a sub-selection of the object passed?
>
> If I wanted to do this and I have just id's, then I could do the
> following:
> setTimeout("$(#'" + obj.id + " #message').fadeOut('slow', function ()
> {$(this).remove();});", 5000);
>
> But what if the object passed doesn't have an id?
>
