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dispatching an event using setTimeout

 
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Jan 6th, 2009
Hello everyone, I've ran into something that's been confusing me. Here's my code snippet:
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  1. if (parent.scrollTop < parent.scrollHeight)
  2. 	{
  3. 		if(document.fireEvent){  //IE
  4. 		   	setTimeout("document.fireEvent('onmousemove')", 10);
  5. 		}else{   //FF
  6. 		   	var changeEvent = document.createEvent("MouseEvents")
  7. 		   	changeEvent.initEvent("mousemove", true, true);
  8. 		   	setTimeout("document.dispatchEvent(changeEvent)", 10);
  9. 		 }
  10. 	}
What happens in Firefox is when the setTimeout fires, it tells me that changeEvent is undefined. To me, it seems to be defined. Has anyone run into this before and know how to work around it?
Thank you,
Last edited by jmasta; Jan 6th, 2009 at 1:13 pm.
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Re: dispatching an event using setTimeout

 
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After doing some googling, I found this thread:
http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread102251.html
which was very similar to mine. I tried ~s.o.s~'s suggestion and it worked very well, and I learned a little bit more about setTimeout. Thank you!
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