Question about setTimeout

[mburt]

Just, a question, but when a function has arguments how come you can't do setTimeout?

Example:

function getCode(arg1,arg2) {
//code
setTimeout("getCode()",100);
}

and when you call it in the body, it won't work? I'm really confused as to how to do this. Thanks in advance

[mburt]

I even tried escaping the objects like this:

setTimeout("getCode(\""+arguments[0]+"\",\""+arguments[1]+"\")")

And still no good.

[Twey]

Code passed as a string to setTimeout() or setInterval() is evaluated in the global scope. Create a closure:

setTimeout(function() { getCode(arg1, arg2); }, 100);