game-timer

About

For games, the built-in timers are not suitable, mainly because of the following two reasons:

1. If you pause the game, the built-in timer won't pause as well.
2. You will want to fire callbacks within your render loop, not somewhere else.

This timer does not maintain it's own clock, so you need to call `update()` in your render loop.

Notes

1. If you use it w/ Three.js, keep in mind that the delta obtained by Three.js' clock.getDelta() is in seconds, not milliseconds!
2. This timer, by default, does not modify the execution context of the callbacks. You can, however pass a context to the set* methods. If you don't provide a context object, or don't bind the callbacks yourself, the execution context will be the timer instance!

Usage

Include the timer.js file via script tag or pull it in using an AMD loader like require.js.

    	var timer = new Timer();

         // setting an interval works like window.setInterval:
         var intervalId = timer.setInterval(someFunc, 100);

         // to set the execution context, pass a context object:
         var intervalId = timer.setInterval(someFunc, 100, someObj);

         // or bind your function:
         var intervalId = timer.setInterval(someFunc.bind(somObj), 100);

         // then, in your render loop:
         function render(){

           //...

           timer.update(delta); // delta needs to be in ms!
         }

         // clearing also works as expected:
         timer.clearInterval(intervalId);

    

Demo

You can see how it works here.

Tests

You can run the tests here.

License

MIT style (X11)

Author

Jens Arps

Contact

Ping me on Twitter: @jensarps