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RE: Timeout Objects
Well, actually there's no need to add so many arguments. You could simply make another function which passes the right parameters and use that as callback, like so:
Javascript code:
function somefunction(arg1, arg2, arg3) {
    // Do something useful
}
 
// Method 1: hard-coded parameters inside new function
var callback = function(timer) {
    somefunction("aa", 123, 3.14159);
};
new Timer(1000, callback);
 
// Method 2: use array to get parameters
var callback = function(timer, args) {
    // Pass each element in the args array as parameter
    somefunction.apply(null, args);
};
var param = ["aa", 123, 3.14159];
new Timer(1000, callback, param);

As you can see, by using some clever coding you can even omit sending the parameter! Of course, this will make your callback function less portable, but it'll save you some precious code in your class itself.

And most important of all: you can avoid using eval() (since everybody knows that eval is evil!)
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Timeout Objects - by trevorpe on 09-19-2009 at 11:35 PM
RE: Timeout Objects - by roflmao456 on 09-20-2009 at 01:08 AM
RE: Timeout Objects - by Matti on 09-20-2009 at 06:54 AM
RE: Timeout Objects - by trevorpe on 09-20-2009 at 11:23 AM
RE: Timeout Objects - by Matti on 09-20-2009 at 05:47 PM


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