Widget: Add a _delay method. Will be used in various places to replace setTimeout with custom binding (mostly getting rid of var self/that)

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/ui/jquery.ui.widget.js b/ui/jquery.ui.widget.js
index 5b7942600..729e14cf9 100644
--- a/ui/jquery.ui.widget.js
+++ b/ui/jquery.ui.widget.js
@@ -333,6 +333,15 @@ $.Widget.prototype = {
 		});
 	},
 
+	_delay: function( handler, delay ) {
+		function handlerProxy() {
+			return ( typeof handler === "string" ? instance[ handler ] : handler )
+				.apply( instance, arguments );
+		}
+		var instance = this;
+		setTimeout( handlerProxy, delay || 0 );
+	},
+
 	_hoverable: function( element ) {
 		this.hoverable = this.hoverable.add( element );
 		this._bind( element, {