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Timer Events with Function Parameters

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Within the Adobe documentation I found this Constructor that exemplifies the usage of the Timer method and the ability to pass in parameters to the function that is called by the timer. I edited this slightly, but here it is:

package {
    import flash.display.Sprite;
    import flash.utils.*;

    public class IntervalsWithParameters extends Sprite {
        private var intervalDuration:Number = 1000; // duration between intervals, in milliseconds
        private var intervalId:uint;
        private var counter:uint     		= 0;
        private var stopCount:uint    		= 2;

        public function IntervalsWithParameters() {
            intervalId = setInterval(myRepeatingFunction, intervalDuration, "Hello", "World");
        }

        public function myRepeatingFunction():void {
            trace(arguments[counter]);

            counter++;

            if(counter == stopCount) {
				trace("Clearing Interval");
                clearInterval(intervalId);
            }
        }
    }
}

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008 at 10:59 am and is filed under Actionscript 3, Timer Methods. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.