The Timer Type

This Timer type provides an interface for creating timers. Warning: The Timer type API has no been finalized yet and is subject to change.

Table of contents

Timer usage

The Timer types constructor takes no arguments.

var timer = new Timer();
timer.start();

// doHardWork();

Helper.log("The hard work took", timer.getElapsedTime(), "ms");

Timer methods

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Timer.isRunning();

Return true if the timer has been started. Returns false if the timer has never been started or stopped by a call to stop().

Timer.start();

Starts the timer.

Timer.restart();

Restarts the timer and returns the time elapsed since the previous start.

The return value is 0 if the timer was not running, the timer though will be started anyway.

Timer.stop();

Stops the timer.

Timer.getElapsedTime();

Returns the number of milliseconds since this timer was last started.

Timer.hasExpired(timeout_in_ms);

• timeout_in_ms (number): A timeout in milliseconds.

Returns true if more than timeout timeout_in_ms milliseconds have elapsed.

Timer.msecsTo(other_timer);

• other_timer (Timer): Another timer object.

Returns the number of milliseconds between this timer and other_timer.