Comments on: Javascript – Passing Multiple Parameters through setTimeout

By: Richard

Richard — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:27:47 +0000

@Richard, Thanks!

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:45:09 +0000

THIS IS JUST AWESOME! THANKS!!!

By: Richard

Richard — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 22:40:59 +0000

Hello Harald! Thank you for your comment. Sometimes it may be necessary to override native functions to add additional functionality or to implement something specific to your requirements. Your example is missing one major element that this post contains. The ability to pass multiple parameters to a function that is called in setTimeout at the specified interval. With the native setTimeout this is not possible.

By: harald

harald — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 06:51:09 +0000

why would anyone like to overwrite the setTimeout method, when it’s so much easier to just write:

var message = ‘Hello’;
var name = ‘Richard’;

window.setTimeout(function() { alertMe(message, name); }, 2000);

… am i missing something or did the original author of the snippet did not understand variable scope in javascript?