clear timeout problems

[hOtTiGeR123]

Hi, I have the following code but the clear timeout doesn't work and I can't understand why, does anyone have any ideas? (Using the Prototype framework)

Thanks

function foo() {
$("navigation").observe('mouseover',
function (event) {
clearTimeout(bar);
}
).observe('mouseout',
function (event) {
setTimeout(bar, 1000);
}
);
}

function bar() {
alert("hi");
}

[Fotiman]

setTimeout returns a value that you can use if you want to cancel the timeout. So you would need to store that value in a variable, and then clearTimeout takes that value as a parameter.

var t = setTimeout(bar, 1000);
clearTimeout(t);