Comments on: Never Ever Use Tween or URLLoader or Loader or Timer or…

By: Mandeep

Mandeep — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:02:38 +0000

thanks, you are save my life!

it's really useful and really easy to use!

Thanks

By: Karl

Karl — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:51:41 +0000

That sure saved my day and a lot of time.

A very grateful thank you.

By: Elliot Rock

Elliot Rock — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:32:30 +0000

Mate please please add WEAK references in you event listeners, your OP is wrong:

this._myTimer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, this._timerHandler);

Should be:

this._myTimer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, this._timerHandler, false, 0, true);

Also just don't bother with the crap native tween class it is bogus on so many levels. Use TweenLite or TweenMax.

By: aandyy

aandyy — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:05:36 +0000

thanks so much! this was driving me crazy and i didn't want to have to push everything onto an array like the other suggestions i've read…glad to know it wasn't just me!

By: cem yildiz

cem yildiz — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:47:22 +0000

thank you so much. it's a great library

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 20:32:49 +0000

Matt!!
Thank you so much man you have really out done your self with this tween fix. I am extreamly greatful

By: manderson

manderson — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:46:15 +0000

Great work sir! This cleared up all the issues I was having.

By: numediaweb

numediaweb — Wed, 13 May 2009 11:51:55 +0000

thank matt
saved me mounths of seraches of cause my project to bug!

thanx, keep on!

By: matthew

matthew — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 03:02:23 +0000

@Drew Yeah, you're right. As long as the Timer is running, it won't be garbage collected. (You're probably remembering this article.) Pretty big bug, IMO, considering that (unlike with Tweens), people often create Timers that run until they are explicitly told to stop (i.e. Timers with a repeatCount of 0). That means you could have a lot of useless Timers clogging up memory without even realizing it. In my opinion, developers should treat this behavior as a bug, and never rely on it to prevent their Timers from being garbage collected.

By: Drew

Drew — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:23:56 +0000

Was this ever really an issue with Timer? I've read elsewhere that Timer objects are never gc'd so GCSafeTimer is really the same as the regular Timer. Am I wrong?