Javascript setTimeout function

Question

I am calling this function

function drawLayers() {

    //setTimeout(drawBlueSky,500);
    //setTimeout(drawCircle1,1250);
    setTimeout(drawMoon,800);
             


        

Answer 1

You can define a var corresponding to your setTimeout and then clear it if you want to cancel the timeout.
For instance:

// set a timeout
timer = setTimeout("testtimeout()",3000);   

// clear the timeout
clearTimeout(timer);

You can wrap all your timeouts within an array and loop over the array to cancel every timeout

[EDIT] seems like Exelian's answer is quite cleaner and more adapted to your code