[Javascript] Avoid multiple onclick

Bill Moseley moseley at hank.org
Wed Oct 18 08:47:01 CDT 2006


On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 02:23:16AM -0700, Paul Novitski wrote:
> One method of preventing a function from running more than once is to 
> set a global variable the first time the function is called, and 
> refuse to run if that variable is set:
> 
>         var bInitialized = false;
>         ...
>         function DoSomething()
>         {
>                         if (bInitialized) return;
>                 bInitialized = true;
> 
>                 ...
>         }

Is there a way to do that atomically?

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Bill Moseley
moseley at hank.org




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