Because otherwise the browser won't refresh the screen, as the rendering
engine only executes when the javascript engine is idle.
Doug Melvin wrote:
> Why the setTimeout
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> Sent: Friday, November 23, 2001 9:39 AM
> Subject: Re: [Dynapi-Dev] forms in NS
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>>You can redraw the layer by doing
>>
>>layer.setVisible(false)
>>setTimeout("layer.setVisible(true)",0)
>>
>>Usually I do it ondragstop, I don't know if NS will be able to handle
>>this code executing on every animation step.
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