Timers

One useful thing to do while programming is have a timer that fires every so often to repeat a specific action such as a picture fade. You create and use a timer thus:


//Imports the appropriate library files

import flash.utils.Timer;

import flash.events.TimerEvent;

//Create a timer that will fire every 1000 milliseconds or every second

var timer:Timer = new Timer(1000);

//Add a listener that gets called every second when the timer fires

timer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, handleTimer);

//Start the timer

timer.start();

//The handler that runs every second

function handleTimer(event:TimerEvent):void

{

    //Do whatever you want to do

    trace("timer");

}