How to setTimeout("this.doSomething()",10)?

[Aquis]

Hello,

I have a custom object and in one of the methods of this object, I need to setTimeout to the method it's currently executing. Basically, so far, I've got:

setTimeout("this.move()",10);

But it doesn't work! The reason for this I believe is that when it is time for the timer to activate, it's no longer in the object, and therefore "this" doesn't exist anymore. When executing, I'm told that "this.move is not a function".

The only way I can think of solving this is to record all of the instances into an array and use a global function to target the correct instance, but I would prefer to get this to work...

Thanks,
Aquis

[gRoberts]

try

setTimeout(function() {
this.move();
}, 10);

[r51]

Before calling setTimeout you can assign this to another variable and use that instead.

var me = this;
setTimeout(function(){me.move()}, 10);

[Aquis]

gRoberts - Really thought that was going to work for a second there, but it unfortunately did not...

r51 - The problem with this is that quite a few instances will all be doing this. Actually, that might work as an array, but it could get big and messy, however I'll try that for now...

Thanks!

[brothercake]

what r51 said is what you need to do - "this" will point to window inside an interval, so you need to copy the reference into the parent scope and use that, exactly as demonstrated

[Aquis]

Hmm, okay, I'll give it a try then...

Robert

Edit: I guess you were right, it worked! I'll have to bear that in mind in future...

Thanks All!