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From: Hans-Georg Michna on 13 Jan 2010 17:25
On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 07:31:44 -0800 (PST), Scott Sauyet wrote:

>On Jan 13, 5:06�am, Hans-Georg Michna <hans-
>georgNoEmailPle...(a)michna.com> wrote:

>> I did have to do something to prevent multiple activations
>> though, and I had already done it, but with that stupid mistake.
>> Now it works just fine.
>>
>> I set a variable or property instead, because it feels more
>> atomic.

>Why not set that as a property of the function itself?
>
> function myOneAtATimeFunc() {
> if (arguments.callee.running) {
> return;
> }
> arguments.callee.running = true;
>
> // your processing here
>
> // At end of function or in AJAX callback:
> arguments.callee.running = false;
> }
>
>This keeps it out of larger scopes, but does what you need, I believe.

Thanks! That's just what I'm doing, except that I don't have to
use arguments.callee, because my function is named.

Hans-Georg
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