Timeout and for-loops

Jack Michaelson posted this at 09:46 — 23rd December 2003.

Joined: Dec 1999

Hi,

I have a for loop that calls a setTimeout like this:

	for(j=0; j < 100; j++)
		{
  	To_ID = setTimeout("MyFunction", 3000);
		}

When I call the clearTimeout-function like this:

clearTimeout(To_ID);

'
the function MyFunction keeps on executing, which makes sense as it is called more than once. Actually, it executes (remaining j - 1) times.
It seems that there are more instances of To_ID made in that for-loop and I want to clear them all.
But... and you all saw this one coming... how?

Anyone have an idea on the direction I should go? Is To_ID an array item? If yes, what array?

Thanx a lot.

Shakespeare: onclick || !(onclick)

Jack Michaelson posted this at 10:03 — 23rd December 2003.

He has: 1,733 posts

Joined: Dec 1999

Nevermind
Solved it like this:
Now I set the timeOuts in an array:

for(j=0; j < (100); j++)
		{
		ToArr.length = ToArr.length + 1;
  	ToArr[ToArr.length - 1] = setTimeout("MyFunction", 3000);
		}

and clear them like this:

	for(a=0; a<ToArr.length; a++)
		{	
		clearTimeout(ToArr[a]);
		}

Shakespeare: onclick || !(onclick)