Help with javascript custom objects and parameters

[stevekapaun01]

I have an object that is defined by and object function. The object takes some parameters and I need one of them to be a string thats the same as the variable name for the object. e.g. var myObj = new form("myObj", arg2, arg3);

What I want to know is if there is any way to find out if the first argument is the same as the variable name of the object.

[stevekapaun01]

Wow, I just figured out the answer on my own. I was working on a different part of the same project and I was using the setTimeout(). I was trying to pass the string of the id property of my object. I kept getting an error and I found out that I was passing the object itself. So I figured out that if you have a string variable of a object name and pass that as a argument to a function using the setTimeout(), the argument will be that object.

Here is a basic sample of the code I came up with:

//global variable
var global_is_a_object;

//the object function
function myObject(id, arg2, arg3)
{
        //properties
        this.id = id;
        this.something = arg2;
        this.something_else = arg3;
        
        //this is a check variable
        this.is_obj = "yes";
        //set global variable to false
        global_is_a_object = false;
        
        //create a variable for the id if this does not happen
        //and the id does not match the variable name a undefined
        //variable will be passed to the check function
        window[id] = "";
        
        //call function to start the check function
        some_function(id);
}
//this function starts the check
function some_function(theID)
{
        //when the setTimeout function is set up like this, the variable: theID
        //is passed to the function as a variable named the value of the theID variable
        var timmerID = setTimeout("isAObject(" + theID + ")", 1);
        //so if the theID has a value of "myObj" then what we're doing here is
        //calling the function like this: isAObject(myObj)
}
//the check function
function isAObject(obj)
{
        //if obj has a type of an object
        if(typeof(obj) == "object") {
                //check the property
                if(obj.is_obj == "yes") { global_is_a_object = true; }
                else { global_is_a_object = false; }
        } else { global_is_a_object = false; }
        
        if(global_is_a_object) {
                //we're good
                alert("the id is the same");
        } else {
                //we're not good
                alert("the id is not the same");
        }
}
//set objects
var myNewObject = new myObject("myNewObject", "blah", "something");
var myNewObject2 = new myObject("myNewObject2", "blah", "something");