The docs advise using Timer instead.
If you are trying to use this to wait for the result of an external data call, you are making a mistake. Tracy ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of jensen.axel Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2006 5:40 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] setTimeout in flex 2.0 I'm confused on how to use setTimeout i have a function that i need to wait 500 milliseconds to call... var aVars:Array = [lat, lng, zoom]; trace(aVars); //39,-105,6 var my_timedFunction:uint = setTimeout(manipulateMap,500,aVars); public function manipulateMap(lat:Number,lng:Number,zoom:Number):void{ u = new URLRequest("javascript:map.setCenter(new GLatLng(" + lat + ',' + lng + '),' + zoom +")"); navigateToURL(u,"_self"); } this makes everything come to a screeching hault, and it tells me i have an invalid number of arguments, it wants 3 arguments but says only one is passed.... anyone have an example of passing arguments with setTimeout? ps... everything works fine if i'm not using setTimeout IE........... manipulateMap(lat,lng,zoom); that works... so i know that my failure is definitely in the way i'm trying to call setTimeout.... the whole reason for doing this is because i'm calling things so fast, that google maps isn't responding, so this is a workaround.... i've trying to do it with javascript, but the concatenation gets too crazy, and it takes 45 minutes to add arguments because of the troubleshooting with javascript, so i'm trying to use the setTimeout in flex rather that the javascript one.... Any help would be great
