using setTimeout when using prototype

[James Black]

I have an object, and I define the following:
var processForm=new Object();

processForm=fun ction(inservlet url) {
this.inservletu rl = inservleturl;
this.submitForm ();
}

processForm.pro totype.submitFo rm2=function() {
}

processForm.pro totype.submitFo rm=function() {
setTimeout("sub mitStep2()", 20);
}
How can the submitForm function's setTimeout call submitStep2?

Thank you.

[Nathan White]

processForm=fun ction(inservlet url) {
this.inservletu rl = inservleturl;
this.submitForm ();

}

processForm.pro totype.submitFo rm2=function() {
}

processForm.pro totype.submitFo rm=function() {
var self = this;
setTimeout(
function(){ self.submitForm 2();}
, 20);
}

[Lasse Reichstein Nielsen]

"James Black" <pl***********@ gmail.com> writes:

I have an object, and I define the following:
var processForm=new Object();
No need to assign an object to the variable when you overwrite
it immediatly afterwards:
processForm=fun ction(inservlet url) {
this.inservletu rl = inservleturl;
this.submitForm ();
}

processForm.pro totype.submitFo rm2=function() {
Should this have been "submitStep 2"?
}

processForm.pro totype.submitFo rm=function() {
setTimeout("sub mitStep2()", 20);
WHen the first argument to setTimeout is a string, then it
is parsed and executed as a program in the global context.
Even if it wasn't, "submitStep 2" is not a variable in
any scope.
How can the submitForm function's setTimeout call submitStep2?

Try:
var self = this;
setTimeout(func tion(){self.sub mitStep2();}, 20);

/L
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[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

Lasse Reichstein Nielsen wrote:

"James Black" <pl***********@ gmail.com> writes:

processForm.pro totype.submitFo rm=function() {
setTimeout("sub mitStep2()", 20);

WHen the first argument to setTimeout is a string, then it
is parsed and executed as a program in the global context.
Even if it wasn't, "submitStep 2" is not a variable in
any scope.

Say property instead and you are correct.

How can the submitForm function's setTimeout call submitStep2?

Try:
var self = this;
setTimeout(func tion(){self.sub mitStep2();}, 20);

^^^^^
Are you sure?
PointedEars

[Lasse Reichstein Nielsen]

Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <Po*********@we b.de> writes:

Lasse Reichstein Nielsen wrote:

Even if it wasn't, "submitStep 2" is not a variable in
any scope.

Say property instead and you are correct.

Not understood. I assumed that "submitForm 2" should have been
"submitStep 2". It was a property of processForm.pro totype, but it was
not a variable anywhere.

How can the submitForm function's setTimeout call submitStep2?

Try:
var self = this;
setTimeout(func tion(){self.sub mitStep2();}, 20);

^^^^^
Are you sure?

.... checking ... rechecking ... yes, I'm sure.

Perhaps it would be more readable to Rename the variable "self" to
"thisProcessFro m", but that would not change the meaning of the
program.

/L
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[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

Lasse Reichstein Nielsen wrote:

Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <Po*********@we b.de> writes:

Lasse Reichstein Nielsen wrote:

Even if it wasn't, "submitStep 2" is not a variable in
any scope. Say property instead and you are correct.

Not understood. I assumed that "submitForm 2" should have been
"submitStep 2". It was a property of processForm.pro totype, but it was
not a variable anywhere.

What I meant was that a method reference does not need to be a
identifier of a variable for the method to be possible to be called.

How can the submitForm function's setTimeout call submitStep2?
Try:
var self = this;
setTimeout(func tion(){self.sub mitStep2();}, 20);

^^^^^
Are you sure?

... checking ... rechecking ... yes, I'm sure.

:)
Perhaps it would be more readable to Rename the variable "self" to
"thisProcessFro m", but that would not change the meaning of the
program.

Correct. Sorry, I overlooked the first line, probably because it was late.
PointedEars

[Dr John Stockton]

JRS: In article <23************ ****@PointedEar s.de>, dated Wed, 1 Feb
2006 18:10:51 remote, seen in news:comp.lang. javascript, Thomas
'PointedEars' Lahn <Po*********@we b.de> posted :

Correct. Sorry, I overlooked the first line, probably because it was late.

You've already been told to pay more attention to what you write.

Time-of-day is no excuse for carelessness.

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prospects.

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[James Black]

Thank you for the suggestion. I will try it in tomorrow and see what
happens.