Comments on: setInterval or onEnterFrame… your thoughts?

By: Stacked Stone

Stacked Stone — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 04:16:37 +0000

Like you I also also like to use setInterval to control over the speed at which the function is called.

By: John

John — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 12:04:37 +0000

What about using updateAfterEvent(), this has been added to the timer event so you can cause your display to redraw after the timer tick.
e.g.

private function timerHandler(e:TimerEvent):void{
draw();
e.updateAfterEvent();
}

So apparently you can have your swf running at 1fps but your timer will cause it to draw.

Has anybody tried this? I am currently playing with and the other methods mentioned with my 3d engine(http://johnukmn.blogspot.com/2006/08/introducing-lux.html)

By: guya

guya — Thu, 11 May 2006 23:14:47 +0000

Intervals in flash are also inaccurate and are influenced from outside the flash player. So even if you use intervals you’ll never get perfect control.

http://blog.guya.net/2006/05/08/flash-player-inaccuracy-clarified/
http://blog.guya.net/2006/03/14/check-your-interval/

By: ericd

ericd — Thu, 11 May 2006 01:19:16 +0000

package {
import flash.utils.Timer;
import flash.events.TimerEvent;
import flash.display.Sprite;

public class TimerExample extends Sprite {

public function TimerExample() {
var myTimer:Timer = new Timer(1000, 2);
myTimer.addEventListener(”timer”, timerHandler);
myTimer.start();
}

public function timerHandler(event:TimerEvent):void {
trace(”timerHandler: ” + event);
}
}
}

By: Josh Tynjala

Josh Tynjala — Wed, 10 May 2006 23:45:07 +0000

Like Jesse mentioned, setTimeout is great. If you’d prefer to use a Timer in AS3, the constructor has a parameter that defines how many times the Timer runs. That’s pretty nice.