[jQuery] setTimeout issue

[schotte]

Hey all,

as I mentioned in the title, I've an issue getting setTimeout to work inside a plugin I am developing.

$.Plugin = function(obj,opt)
{
     init();
     
     function init() { ... };
     function heartbeat() { ... };

     setTimeout('heartbeat();', 1000);
}

Error: heartbeat is not defined

Anyone dealt with this before?

Cheers

[edric]

Originally Posted by schotte

Hey all,

as I mentioned in the title, I've an issue getting setTimeout to work inside a plugin I am developing.

$.Plugin = function(obj,opt)
{
     init();
     
     function init() { ... };
     function heartbeat() { ... };

     setTimeout('heartbeat();', 1000);
}

Error: heartbeat is not defined

Anyone dealt with this before?

Cheers

try this

$.Plugin = function(obj,opt)
{
     init();
     
     function init() { ... };
     function heartbeat() { ... };

     setTimeout(heartbeat, 1000);
}

no braces no parentheses just pass the function object itself instead of a string.

[Uzbekjon]

The problem is that javascript can not find heartbeat() when it's being run. You should either declare your function out of the plugin (global namespace) or refer to your function with the full path ($.plugin.func()). Of course you'd need to rewrite your code a little...

function heartbeat() { ... };

$.Plugin = function(obj,opt)
{
     init();
     
     function init() { ... };

     setTimeout('heartbeat();', 1000);
}