Question

I’m having some interesting issues with passing in variables from within an object into setTimeout. At first, I tried putting the function I was calling from setTimeout on my object so that I wouldn’t have to pass any variables into it (I was hoping it could access my object by itself). That didn’t work, apparently because the function somehow became global when I called it from setTimeout, and no longer had access to my object’s variables.

This was my next attempt, but it doesn’t work either:

function MyObj() {
    this.foo = 10;
    this.bar = 20;
    this.duration = 1000;

    setTimeout(function(){
        AnotherFunction(this.foo, this.bar)
    }, this.duration);
}

So, how exactly can I pass in a variable into setTimeout from within an object? No, AnotherFunction won’t be able to directly access MyObj for various unrelated reasons, so that’s out of the question too.

Answer 1

I think the problem is that when your function executes, this is no longer bound to MyObj. You could try

function MyObj() {
    var that = this;
    this.foo = 10;
    this.foo = 20;
    this.duration = 1000;

    setTimeout(function(){AnotherFunction(that.foo, that.bar)}, this.duration);
}

Or I do have one more idea should that not work.