Thanks,
Ram

Than I have associated one task to the interval and it doesn’t create problems, the timing is always perfect.

I added a normal setInterval monitor for comparing…

Now I don’t know if this is a good solution, but I feel good now

http://www.studiozu.com/custom_timer/customTimer.swf

http://www.studiozu.com/custom_timer/customTimer.swf

Bye!

I disposed 4 mc on the stage running crazy on the enterframe. With these simultaneous tasks I needed to set the precision value not at 0.99, but at 0.97 to let the timer go on… with more clips the correct value can be 0.94 or 0.8 or 0.3.

Flash player’s performances decrease with a lot of tasks, so, with the performances, decreases also the flash interval precision, so we need to consider this when we set the precision value. The bad thing is that decreasing the precision value we need greater loops to reach the correct interval… So more tasks more cpu usage…

The other problem, referred to the function I posted, is that I do calculations of the timer position using the time value saved into the variable timerPosition. And this variable must have as value a multiple of our interval. If you do something after the while loop, where we increase the timer position, we also need to take care of the time needed by this stuff to execute, otherwise our timerPosition value gets bad value that never more will verify the if statement causing the interruption of our custom interval…

everything is bad…

I think that this time an hack isn’t enough to find an acceptable solution to this flash limit… only you, actionscript gurus, maybe can find the right trick and I will be here reading…

thanks for blogging masters

var timer:Timer;
var timerPosition:Number;
var interval:Number;
var precision:Number;

function CustomTimer(delay:Number) {
timerPosition = 0;
interval = delay;
precision = 0.965;

timer = new Timer(delay);
timer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER,update);
timer.start();
}

function update(e:TimerEvent):void {
var t:Number = 0;
timer.stop();

while (getTimer()-timerPosition < interval) {
t++;
}

(t == 0) ? trace(“I’m sorry, too hard to get absolute precision”) : trace(“Total iterations to get precision: ” + t + ” (Higer values need greater precision for lower cpu”);
if ((getTimer()-timerPosition) == interval) {
timerPosition += interval;
trace(“Timer in this moment: “+getTimer()+” ms”);
timer = new Timer(interval*precision);
timer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER,update);
timer.start();
}
}

CustomTimer(3000);