Question

I’m a jquery novice trying to write my first app here and one thing I’ve been trying to figure out is how to use the .delay() method if what I want to delay is the method of an object.

So for example, I have something like this:

dice = new Dice("#die1", "#die2");
dice.roll();

But I want there to be a delay before the roll() function is actually invoked. How would I do that?

I figured using jquery would be easier than pure javascript because I know that using setTimout() is tricky to use with your own methods.

Answer 1

There is nothing tricky or dangerous about setTimeout and it’s likely the most appropriate approach here. It’s specifically designed to execute functions after a given time has expired.

For example here’s a 1 second delay

dice = new Dice("#die1", "#die2");
setTimeout(function() { dice.roll(); }, 1000);