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Is there a window properties variable that will act in the same way as the setTimeout function?

Apr 4th, 2008 20:53
ha mo, Jean-Bernard Valentaten, Colin Fraser, wolfie Macantire,

> No, but if you do not want to use a set TimeOut() function, create 
> your own,
> Try 
>  for (i=0;i<10000;i++) ; // do nothing but waste processor time
But of course this is processor dependent (a 286 will take much longer 
than a Pentium 4), so you can alternatively pass the current time to a 
var and then check how much time has elapsed since.
Might look like this:
function delay(millis)
{
  var now = new Date();
  var mil = now.getTime();
  while (now.getTime() - mil <= millis) {;}
  return;
}
HTH
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