[Greasemonkey] setTimeout() problems

[A. Alfred Ayache]

Hi Premshree:

I found a slideshow on DiveIntoGreasemonkey.org which explains how to do this:

http://diveintogreasemonkey.org/slides/

It's on slide 11, which you can get to by hovering in the lower right and using 
the drop-down.

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Can’t auto-eval chunks of JavaScript code in strings

Fails:

window.setTimeout("my_func()", 1000);

Works:

window.setTimeout(my_func, 1000);
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Premshree Pillai wrote:
> Hi group,
> 
> I'm using a setTimeout within a userscript. The function that I need
> to pass as argument accepts an argument. Sample code:
> 
>   var foo = "bleh";
>   window.setTimeout(function(arg) { alert(arg); }(foo), 300);
> 
> I get an error--"useless setTimeout call (missing quotes around
> argument?)"--on execution.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> Premshree
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