setTimeout does not work

Question

I want to load an OWL file before executing other (visualisation-)scripts. To do this I tried everything from

$(document).ready

to

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Answer 1

Try this:

function visualize (file) {
  if (!file)
    {setTimeout(function(){visualize(file);}, 2000)}
  else
    {jQuery(function($){visFeaturePool.init(file)})}}

This way you are giving setTimeout an anonymous function that will be executed when scheduled, and you can pass parameters to visualize using a closure like file.