Timers in Actionscript 3

Wez Pyke — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:37:04 +0000

I'm writing this tutorial for someone who posted a comment on Basic Actionscript 3 Game Part 1 called sstng so if you would like to know how to do a certain thing in a language then feel free to post a comment and ask.

Timers in Actionscript 3 are really simple and easy to use and understand.

Sstng wanted to know how to create a timer that is triggered after 100 seconds.

Here is the code we would use to do this.

//set the time you want in milliseconds.
var myTimer:Timer = new Timer(100000, 1); //100 seconds
myTimer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, theAction); //when the timer hits 100 seconds it will run the Action
myTimer.start() //start the timer

function theAction(event:TimerEvent) :void {
trace("Timer Triggered"); //output a message so you know its working
}

I hope this has helped.

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