Andy Sciro's Blog

Tweenlite/Max is easily my favorite AS3/AS2 Tween Engine. Here’s a quick code snippet that most people do not know about!! If you enjoy using timers in AS3 check out the “delayedCall()” function in TweenMax/Lite. The key argument here is scalability, after a while using 1 line of code  (delayedCall) becomes a lot more convenient then the more involved timer class.

package {
    import flash.utils.Timer;
    import flash.events.TimerEvent;
    import flash.display.Sprite;

    public class TimerExample extends Sprite {

        public function TimerExample() {
            var myTimer:Timer = new Timer(1000, 2);
            myTimer.addEventListener("timer", timerHandler);
            myTimer.start();
        }

        public function timerHandler(event:TimerEvent):void {
            trace("timerHandler: " + event);
        }
    }
}

VS.

Std. Tweenlite/Max delayedCall (v.11)

package {
    import com.greensock.*;
    import flash.display.Sprite;
    public class DelayedCallExample extends Sprite {

        public function DelayedCallExample() {
            TweenLite.delayedCall(0.5, myDelayedCall, [1,true]);
        }

        public function myDelayedCall(argument1:Number,Boolean):void {
            trace("that was easy!");
        }
    }
}

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Tags: as3, call, delayed, delayedcall, flash, green, how, lite, max, params, sock, timer, to, tween, tweenlite, tweenmax, vs

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