[thelist] SetTimeout & ClearTimeout

Gerenday, Perry (P.) pgerenda at visteon.com
Wed Sep 12 11:56:28 CDT 2001


Just a quick response here - no real time to explorer further.

clearTimeout(time) ---- don't capitalize the "c".

Perry Gerenday, Visual Communications Artist
www.virtually-artistic.com


 > -----Original Message-----
 > From: jelle desramaults [mailto:nsg_chong at hotmail.com]
 > Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 8:24 PM
 > To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
 > Subject: [thelist] SetTimeout & ClearTimeout
 > 
 > 
 > evolters,
 > 
 > I hava a little timeout that should run for 0.5 seconds 
 > normally but should
 > stop on an event.
 > 
 > I just prepared a little bit of code for you to comment  ...
 > 
 > ------------
 > 
 > var time
 > 
 > function hideTimed(id) {
 > 
 > if (ns4) time = setTimeout("document.layers['"+id+"'].visibility =
 > 'hide';",500)
 >  else if (ie4) time = 
 > setTimeout("document.all['"+id+"'].style.visibility =
 > 'hidden';",500)
 >  else if (ns6) time =
 > setTimeout("document.getElementById('"+id+"').style.visibility =
 > 'hidden';",500)
 > 
 > ClearTimeout(time)
 > 
 > }
 > 
 > ------------
 > 
 > this one gives me a nasty little error ["Object Expected"] , 
 > pointing to the
 > line containing
 > the clearTimeout. (only in homesite though, online i there's 
 > no error bu
 > tthe cleartimeout
 > just doesn't excecute) I'm kinda stuck, any insight at all 
 > would be very
 > nice.
 > 
 > if anybody feels like checking the whole document :
 > http://www.sitekick.be/testarea/b3_nav2.html
 > 
 > Jelle Desramaults
 > www.sitekick.be
  




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