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Sep 10.2006

Sorry so basic. I just can’t figure out why this is (not) happening in IE 6.0 (the only browser I have tried it on). I am trying to delay a function. SetTimeout executes the function and passes its parameters fine, but there is no delay. I added the following as the first function in a javascript file:

[COLOR=DarkRed]function p4hOpacity(p4hDelay,zxcm,zxcsrt,zxcfin,zxcd,zxcstp){
setTimeout(zxcEleOpacity(zxcm,zxcsrt,zxcfin,zxcd,zxcstp),p4hDelay);
}[/COLOR]

I call it from inside my HTML file by:

[COLOR=DarkRed]<body onload=”p4hOpacity(3000,’clover’,1,100,100,50);”>[/COLOR]

=No anticipated 3-second delay.

Yet it calls the zxcEleOpacity function fine and fades in the image, just as it did before I added the delay function.

The code I added the function to was from vwphillips (thanks), found at the bottom of thread:

[COLOR=DarkOliveGreen]http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?t=97595&highlight=image+fade[/COLOR]

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@CharlesSep 10.2006 — See http://www.w3schools.com/htmldom/met_win_settimeout.asp . You are passing as the first parameter to setTimeout what ever is returned by the function call zxcEleOpacity(zxcm,zxcsrt,zxcfin,zxcd,zxcstp).
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@mousebearauthorSep 10.2006 — Obviously I'm new at this. I looked at the link. That shows a method. Is setTimeout both a Method and a Function? I have tried lots of perumations:

function p4hOpacity(p4hDelay,zxcm,zxcsrt,zxcfin,zxcd,zxcstp){

setTimeout("zxcEleOpacity(zxcm,zxcsrt,zxcfin,zxcd,zxcstp);",p4hDelay);

}

function p4hOpacity(p4hDelay,zxcm,zxcsrt,zxcfin,zxcd,zxcstp){

setTimeout("zxcEleOpacity(zxcm,zxcsrt,zxcfin,zxcd,zxcstp)",p4hDelay);

}

function p4hOpacity(p4hDelay,zxcm,zxcsrt,zxcfin,zxcd,zxcstp){

window.setTimeout("zxcEleOpacity(zxcm,zxcsrt,zxcfin,zxcd,zxcstp);",p4hDelay);

}

function p4hOpacity(p4hDelay,zxcm,zxcsrt,zxcfin,zxcd,zxcstp){

window.setTimeout("zxcEleOpacity(zxcm,zxcsrt,zxcfin,zxcd,zxcstp)",p4hDelay);

}

function p4hOpacity(p4hDelay,zxcm,zxcsrt,zxcfin,zxcd,zxcstp){

this.setTimeout("zxcEleOpacity(zxcm,zxcsrt,zxcfin,zxcd,zxcstp);",p4hDelay);

}

function p4hOpacity(p4hDelay,zxcm,zxcsrt,zxcfin,zxcd,zxcstp){

this.setTimeout("zxcEleOpacity(zxcm,zxcsrt,zxcfin,zxcd,zxcstp)",p4hDelay);

}

The example in the w3schools link was inside the HTML file. I could try that, but that's really not where I'd like to put it. I'd like to call this from lots of pages by putting it in the .js file
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@felgallSep 11.2006 — The way that you need to code it is:

this.setTimeout("zxcEleOpacity("+zxcm+","+zxcsrt+","+zxcfin+","+zxcd+","+zxcstp+")",p4hDelay);
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