setTimeout not passing variables

[Oziam]

hi,

I am trying to set a timeout then call another function
after timeout expires, this works OK using;

setTimeout("processForm()", 1500);

it works fine if I have the processForm variables already predefined,

e.g

var formname = 'form1';

function processForm(){

// do something with formname
}

but if i try to pass them within the setTimeout function it doesn't work?

e.g

setTimeout("processForm(formname)", 1500);

function processForm(formname){

// do something with formname
}

this will result in undefined formname error!
I have tried to remove and change the quotes around but still get errors??

any Ideas please

[Nile]

Try:

setTimeout("processForm("+formname+")", 1500);

function processForm(formname){

// do something with formname
}

[Oziam]

thanks, but that didn't work either.

However I did figure it out, I just declared the formid as a global variable!
now it works within other functions without having to redeclare it!

Cheers!

[Nile]

Okay, good luck