Comments on snippet: 'ActionScript 3 Delay Function'

scottwatkins said on 06/Apr/2011

Wed, 06 Apr 2011 07:20:59 UTC

Be sure to include the timer classes import flash.events.TimerEvent; import flash.utils.Timer;

scottwatkins said on 06/Apr/2011

Wed, 06 Apr 2011 07:25:38 UTC

This is a function that I've needed but wasn't available in AS3. Basically, we create a timer, add a listener to it, and start the timer. In the listener, we run the supplied function with the supplied parameters, then remove the listener.

scottwatkins said on 06/Apr/2011

Wed, 06 Apr 2011 07:29:38 UTC

UPDATE: I've had to remove the `timer = null` declaration because that was clearing the `timer` variable before additional iterations were completed. It worked fine when `repeat` was set to 1, but when `repeat` was greater than 1, timer was nulled out before the second iteration could be started.

scottwatkins said on 07/Apr/2011

Thu, 07 Apr 2011 00:01:41 UTC

UPDATE: I've fixed the `timer = null` issue. The function now works as expected.