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Re: setInterval inside function issue

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Apr 17th, 2008
To get around these scope issues, you can either go with the messier and error prone global object solution or make use of the elegant concept of Closures.
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
            "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
    <meta http-equiv"Script-Content-Type" content="text/javascript">
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
    <meta http-equiv="Expires" content="0"> <!-- disable caching -->
    <title>Example</title>
    <script type="text/javascript">
    function Klass(name) {
      this.name = name;
      this.handle = null;
      this.startTimer = function() {
        this.handle = setInterval(function(obj) {
          return(function() {
            alert(obj.name);
            });
          }(this), 5000);
      }
    var a = new Klass('hello');
    a.startTimer();
    </script>
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