Question

I trying to write a generic function which takes the function and number of milliseconds as argument and it sets it to setTimeout function. I tried: like

$("#Delay").click(function() {
    delayCallBack(someFunction(a, b), 100);
});

In delayCallBack function:

function delayCallBack(event, time) {
    setTimeout(function() {
        event();
    }, time);
};

But this is not working and throwing me JavaScript error. Can someone please help me with the right way of doing this?

Answer 1

Replace

$("#Delay").click(function() {delayCallBack(someFunction(a,b), 100);});

With

$("#Delay").click(function() {delayCallBack(function(){someFunction(a,b)}, 100);});

The first line executes someFunction(a,b) instead of what the second line does, passing a reference to a function to execute.