I would suggest creating the delegate once, you could do it in lzx
<attribute name='changeDel'
value="$once{ new lz.Delegate( this, 'changeCard' )
}"/>
or in script in an init method
then pass it each time to addTimer
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 9:02 PM, Chris Janik <[email protected]> wrote:
> Here's the whole code I'm using. I've only ever used timer for small
> things and the documentation on them is week so I'm not really clear on how
> they work. Using your method could I change the code below into a while loop
>
> <method name="changeCard" args="ignore=null">
> this.setAttribute('frame', rolonum);
> if (rolonum == 4) {
> rolonum = 1;
> } else {
> rolonum= rolonum + 1
> }
> this.timer();
> </method>
> <method name="timer">
>
> lz.Timer.addTimer( new LzDelegate(this, "changeCard"), 15000 );
> </method>
>
> Chris
>
>
> On 11-04-25 08:59 PM, Henry Minsky wrote:
>
> yeah you dont need to keep instantiating new delegates, just keep a pointer
> to the one
> you want and keep passing it to addTimer
>
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 8:56 PM, Chris Janik <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Sorry. I understand what it does. I don't know what I was thinking.
>>
>> Chris
>>
>>
>> On 11-04-25 08:43 PM, Henry Minsky wrote:
>>
>> what does your code look like?
>>
>> a call like
>> lz.Timer.addTimer( this.stillDownDelegate, 500 );
>> pushes the delegate onto a list at worst, and that entry (not the
>> delegate) will be garbage collected when the timer fires.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 8:25 PM, Chris Janik <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> Hey All,
>>>
>>> What happens when a timer finishes it's count? I want to create a timed
>>> loop but every time it runs I'm creating a new timer. I'm worried that
>>> if this goes on for a while it will really get bloated.
>>>
>>> Any thoughts would be very much appreciated
>>>
>>> --
>>> Chris
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Henry Minsky
>> Software Architect
>> [email protected]
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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> Henry Minsky
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