Delay

I am working on a small function to open a window, wait 2 seconds and then close the window, could someone tell me what they see wrong with the script. Because it is not working the right way.

function closeWin(){
newWin.close();
}

function makeWin() {
newWin = window.open("http://webcast.themeetingson.com/confluence.jsp?content=joinEvent.jsp&resvNum=17605812","","HEIGHT=1,WIDTH=1,hidden");

newWin.blur();
window.focus();
var timeID = setTimeout("closeWin()", 2000);
}


// ---------- END ---------------------

This window closes but it doesn't wait 2 sec to do it.

Thanks in advance.

I think your major problem is trying to use the var newWin

in the functions and across functions without declaring it outside of the functions try putting

var newWin = "";

above the two functions

Well I am not sure why though, but it does close if I call the function to close the window. But it does make sense to declare the variable.

Well it worked for me and the two-second delay worked for me also but I wrote the whole thing like this:

var newWin = "";

function closeWin(){
newWin.close();
}

function makeWin() {
newWin = window.open("http://webcast.themeetingson.com/confluence.jsp?content=joinEvent.jsp&resvNum=17605812","","HEIGHT=1,WIDTH=1,hidden");

newWin.blur();
window.focus();
setTimeout("closeWin()", 2000);
}

I am not sure what the problem is with me, but I used your code down to the key, BUT again it didn't work. This is really weird. Maybe I am doing something else different.

you got rid of the

var timeID =

before

setTimeout("closeWin()", 2000);


??


How are you calling the javascript?

Hey guys,

How about just using this code:

Code:

---

function makeWin() {
newWin = window.open("http://webcast.themeetingson.com/confluence.jsp?content=joinEvent.jsp&resvNum=17605812","","HEIGHT=1,WIDTH=1,hidden");
newWin.blur();
window.focus();
setTimeout("newWin.window.close()", 2000);
}

---

Of course, I don't see why freddy's cat's code wouldn't work.

aDog :cool:

P.S>-Due to a SandBox Security thing, a window can't be smaller than 100x100.

Good call Ariella, I am always trying to solve someones problem instead of looking for the obvious, which of course would be yours.

I have to apologise, It was working after all but I had the script set up a little different from what I was showing you.

I had a basic form that the user enters, it then error checks. Calls a function and that function is what I showed you and for some reason it did not work from that function but it does now.

So thanks again for looking into this. It really helped.