Sending an Object using setInterval

Hello again...

I was wondering if anyone knew of a problem sending an object to a function using setInterval?
If I call a function normally:

testMissle(firing, event.clientX, event.clientY);

It works fine, but if I try it with setInterval:

var intervalID=setInterval("testMissle(firing, event.clientX, event.clientY)", 10);

I get an error inside of the function:

function testMissle(obj, destX, destY)
{ alert(obj);
...

on the alert that obj is not defined...



Anyone heard of this? (let me know if you need to see more code)
Thanks!

if firing is not the name of global variable it won't work. The expression for setTimeout is a String passed to the window object for execution aftre the second param(in milliseconds), so you must either represent finally as a String recognisable by the window object(not by the function declaring firing), or make firing a global var if you can.

Thanks so much...

I didn't have my object declared in the global object, just in another function - your suggestion did the trick! (didn't know that setInterval - and assuming setTimeout is the same - looked to the global object for the values being passed in...)

Hey Dan. I cover that topic in my as-of-yet-unpublished article (http://www.peterbailey.net/test/article.htm). Look for it at SitePoint.com sometime soon

Also, Algorithm wrote a nice JS class (http://www.codingforums.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=10531) for handling timeouts/intervals that I've had nothing but success with.

Very cool!

Thanks beetle!