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timing/waiting in jQuery

I am writting a banner rotator and I want it to cycle among few pictures after few seconds. Does jQuery has something for waiting and then calling the callback? I can see the .delay method, but it doesn't seem to have a callback function. Or maybe I should use a browser-dependant function? Or maybe javascript already contains a function that I need? I am new to javascript :-| .

Solution

  • You can always use the native javascript:

    setTimeout(function(){ /* do your stuff */ }, 1000);

    You can have some fun with mixins:

    var timeoutCallback = function() {
    this.foo = 5;
}

var scheduleTimeout = function(obj, delay) {
    setTimeout(function(){ timeoutCallback.call(obj); }, delay);
}

var myobj = { foo: 1, bar: 2 }
scheduleTimeout(myobj, 1000); // myobj.foo becomes 5 after 1000ms delay