Open several tabs and then perform actions on said tabs
<p>I am horrible at debugging and am totally confused as to why this won't work.  Here is my situation:</p>

<p>I wrote a function to open several links into tabs and then perform a very simple operation on them.  It wasn't working as I had anticipated so I rewrote it to just open one one link into one tab, which worked.  This is what I have (simplified):</p>

<pre><code>links=arrayFromGetElemenetsCall;
if(condition){
  theNewWindow=window.open(links[0]);
}
setTimeout("myFunction(theNewWindow)",5000);
}

function myFuntion(bob){
  bob.doStuff();
}
</code></pre>

<p>When I attempt to open more than one tab and save the window references into an array for future use I get an error.  This is the simplified code for multiple windows:</p>

<pre><code>var theArray=new Array();
links=arrayFromGetElemenetsCall;
for(conditions){
  if(condition){
    theArray[i]=window.open(links[i]);
  }
}
setTimeout("myFunction(theArray[0])",5000);}

function myFuntion(bob){
  bob.doStuff();
}
</code></pre>

<p>Which does not work.  i get "Error: theArray is not defined" if and only if it is written into the setTimeout function.  I have tried passing the entire array and then looping in myFunction as well as calling .doStuff() on bob[0].</p>

<p>What is it that i'm not seeing here?</p>
