sleep function with a parameter

[M B HONG 20]

Hi all -

I'm trying to emulate a sleep function in javascript. I know of this
method for example:

window.setTimeout("function1();", 500);

However, I was wondering if there was a way to call the function with a
parameter, for example:

window.setTimeout("function1(string1);", 500);

This gives me a javascript error. Any help will be greatly
appreciated. Thanks in advance.

[M B HONG 20]

Nevermind, it was a syntax error, it turns out you could just do

window.setTimeout(function1(string1), 500)

you dont need the quotes in the function declaration.

[web.dev]

M B HONG 20 wrote:

Hi all -

I'm trying to emulate a sleep function in javascript. I know of this
method for example:

window.setTimeout("function1();", 500);

However, I was wondering if there was a way to call the function with a
parameter, for example:

window.setTimeout("function1(string1);", 500);

This gives me a javascript error. Any help will be greatly
appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Does function1 expect a string in its parameter? Then you should be
sending in a string:

window.setTimeout("function1('string1');", 500);

[Michael Winter]

On 18/10/2005 00:43, M B HONG 20 wrote:

Nevermind, it was a syntax error, it turns out you could just do

window.setTimeout(function1(string1), 500)

That's something entirely different. Here you're calling the function,
function1, immediately. The return value from that call will be
converted to a string and evaluated approximately 500 milliseconds
later. This can be proven with:

function myFunction() {
alert('Called');
return '';
}

setTimeout(myFunction(), 10000);

No dialog box should appear for around ten seconds, yet it will appear
immediately.

I would guess that your identifier, string1, is local to some function.
As the setTimeout function is evaluated in global scope, an error would
occur with

setTimeout('function1(string1)', 500);

because when executed, string1 won't exist. To get around that,
concatenate the value of string1 into the literal, remembering to
include nested quotes:

setTimeout('function1("' + string1 + '");', 500);

If string1 contained the value, 'my string', the code above would call

function1("my string");

approximately 500ms later.

Mike

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[M B HONG 20]

actually my mistake, the method

window.setTimeout(function1(string1), 500)

does not work, it does not actually sleep for the 500ms before firing
the function.

web.dev, thanks for the reply. Your method works for a straight string
passing through, but I need the function to be called with a variable
parameter.

[M B HONG 20]

Thanks a lot Michael, that did the trick.

[Robert]

M B HONG 20 wrote:

Hi all -

I'm trying to emulate a sleep function in javascript. I know of this
method for example:

window.setTimeout("function1();", 500);

After reading your previous posts in your thread I assume you wanted to
do something like
window.setTimeout(func, 500);
where func is a reference to a function, but also want the ability to
pass a parameter.

You can accomplish this using closures.
Example:

function displayMessage(message)
{
alert(message);
}

function setDelayedMessage()
{
var message = "hello";
var func = function()
{
displayMessage(message);
}
window.setTimeout(func, 500);
}

setDelayedMessage();