clearTimeout problem

[ASAAKI]

i have a function fire(whichbomb) that animates an element.
i also have setTimeout("fire('"+currBomb.id+"')",250)
to stop the animation, i tried
clearTimeout("fire("+someBomb.id+")")
didn't work, the bomb went on sailing :(
:confused:

[Carl]

Its just clearTimeout();

[x_goose_x]

tmp = setTimeout("something()",10000);

clearTimeout(tmp);

[Mr J]

Yep .
you need to give your setTimeout a name then use that in the clearTimeout

timer=setTimeout("fire('"+currBomb.id+"')",250)


clearTimeout(timer)

[ASAAKI]

thanx:)
i had lots of animated elements, so what i did was use a loop and have a timer array to store each timer, and then did:
clearTimeout(timer[whatever.id])
it worked. thanx, really needed it