There's a book? I'll look into it Chris
On 11-04-25 09:54 PM, Norman Klein wrote: > > Pick up a copy of Laszlo in Action as it will save you a ton of time. > You can find used copies on Amazon pretty cheaply. Although it was > written for lps4.0.8 (and 4.2) introduced some significant changes, it > still thoroughly covers the basics. > > Norman Klein > Author: Laszlo in Action > > On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 6:02 PM, Chris Janik <[email protected] > <mailto:[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] <mailto:[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] <mailto:[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] <mailto:[email protected]> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Henry Minsky >> Software Architect >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> >> >
