Thanks. I'll give it a go
Chris
On 11-04-25 09:54 PM, Henry Minsky wrote:
> 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]
> <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]>
>>
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Henry Minsky
> Software Architect
> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>
>
