At 4:40 PM +0100 11/18/2000, Andreas Gaunitz wrote:
>>Timeouts objects are a great feture of the new Director
>>generation. They look like fully self-contained objects
>>able to send events to any previously defined method in
>>another class or to a movie level handler.
>>
>>I think it would be seemingly simple for Macromedia adding
>>a property "enabled" to its timeout object. Introducing
>>such prop imho would lead to a cleaner and faster code.
>
>
>1) You can 'mute' a timer by using:
>
>----
>myTimeoutObject.timeOutHandler = ""
>----
>
>and unmute it by setting the timeOutHandler to whatever handler you need.
>
I've never tried that -
I turn off but retain a timer object just by setting its period to 0:
myTimeoutObject.period = 0
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Roy Pardi
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