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1. Actionscript Classes » ExtendedTimer Says:
   October 16th, 2008 at 7:47 pm

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2. thetoke Says:
   October 30th, 2008 at 4:06 pm

   I’d rather make it:

   delay = event.target.currentCount;

3. fjakobs Says:
   October 30th, 2008 at 5:03 pm

   why exactly would you do this?

4. Nikita Says:
   November 1st, 2008 at 9:07 am

   Thanks for code. But there’s little bug – then repeatCount reaches it’s maximum, method start() will trigger anyway. I added:
   override public function start() : void {
   if(currentCount < _repeatCount){
   _paused = false;
   _startTime = new Date().time;
   super.start();
   }
   }
   where _repeatCount is repeatCount from consructor. Now it’s work fine.

5. grabek Says:
   November 3rd, 2008 at 10:19 am

   hey – make it a static function, and you’re a genius!

6. fjakobs Says:
   November 4th, 2008 at 10:05 am

   @Nikita, thank you for the tip, i updated the start method. now the timer won’t trigger if you call start() after the timer reaches it’s maximum repeatCount.

   @grabek, do you think about a TimerManager?

7. Martin Says:
   November 12th, 2008 at 11:23 am

   Another slight issue I faced is that in :
   
override public function start() : void
{
if(currentCount < _repeatCount)
{
_paused = false;
_startTime = new Date().time;
super.start();
}
}

   … the “if” will never return true if _repeatCount is 0 since currentCount and and _repeatCount have the same value initally. Appending

   || _repeatCount == 0

   to the if statement solved the problem for me.

8. Martin Says:
   November 12th, 2008 at 11:28 am

   Oh, and needless to say: Lovely piece of code. Thanks a lot.

9. grabek Says:
   November 17th, 2008 at 7:37 am

   TimerManager – I suppose so! (:

10. Peter Says:
    December 15th, 2008 at 5:52 pm

    Hey, thanks for this class!!! But, I’m newbie in AS3, classes!

    How I use this code in my class document after import it?

    (sorry for my poor english… I’m brazilian)

11. Peter Says:
    December 15th, 2008 at 6:12 pm

    Yep! It’s works fine here now! Thanks!!!

12. DorkBot Says:
    February 17th, 2009 at 4:22 am

    very useful class. Thanks! I had to add this:

    public function pause():void {
    if (running) {
    _paused = true;
    stop();
    var thisDelay:Number = delay – (new Date().time – _startTime);
    if (thisDelay < 0) {
    thisDelay = 0;
    }
    delay = thisDelay;
    }
    }

    I kept getting errors when var delay was below 0.

13. Paul Says:
    February 24th, 2009 at 1:35 am

    Very useful thanks so much!!

14. Paul Says:
    February 24th, 2009 at 1:42 am

    @Peter – might be a little late but this is how you use it.

    Once you import the class do the following.

    1. Create a var with type Number and set it to how long you want the timer delay.

    var newTimer:Number = 5000; //timer will run every 5sec

    2. create a new instance of ExtendedTimer and pass in the timer var you just created above.

    var timer1:ExtendedTimer = new ExtendedTimer(newTimer);

    3. Now just use timer1.start(); and timer1.pause(); to pause the timer. To resume simply call timer1.start(); again.

    That should do it! Good Luck

15. Daniel Says:
    March 1st, 2009 at 2:57 pm

    Thank you, saved me some time

16. Jason Says:
    March 17th, 2009 at 9:40 pm

    This saved me a lot of hair pulling and time.

    I needed the ability to reset this ExtendedTimer after it was paused but calling reset() didn’t reset the timer. I realized that was because you are adjusting the delay whenever start() was called.

    I created a new function called resume() which acts like your start() function. I then modified your start() function to set delay = _initialDelay; This essentially resets the timer.

    // timer continues from where it left off
    public function resume() : void
    {
    if((currentCount < repeatCount) || (repeatCount == 0))
    {
    _paused = false;
    _startTime = new Date().time;
    super.start();
    }
    }

    // timer gets reset
    override public function start() : void
    {
    if((currentCount < repeatCount) || (repeatCount == 0))
    {
    delay = _initialDelay; // added to “reset” timer
    _paused = false;
    _startTime = new Date().time;
    super.start();
    }
    }

    So now I can either call start() which always resets the timer or I can call resume() which resumes the timer.

    Thanks again for the code!

17. Dennis Says:
    May 28th, 2009 at 4:29 am

    I used this code to fix up my own pausable timer – very helpful, thanks
    I also encountered the “delay 0) //if there’s no remainder, timer should start next cycle
    {
    delay = remainder; //otherwise, timer should finish current cycle
    }

18. axaq Says:
    July 3rd, 2009 at 11:56 am

    that is really usefull. thank you..

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