wait for async javascript function to return

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Published on 2010-06-16T06:53:26Z Indexed on 2010/06/16 7:02 UTC
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I am using a function supplied by a third party library. This function takes a callback function as a parameter, but I would like to wait for this callback to be called before continuing. Is there a standard / accepted way to do this?

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