How to use a Timer in Actionscript 3

It is really easy to create a Timer in Actionscript 3.

Instantiate the Timer Class and pass a time in millions of 1000 to it to work in seconds.

var myTimer:Timer = new Timer(1000);
Code language: JavaScript (javascript)

Setup an event listener to call a function.

myTimer.addEventListener("timer", myTimerEventHandler);
Code language: JavaScript (javascript)

Start the Timer.

myTimer.start();
Code language: CSS (css)

Start the Timer.

function myTimerEventHandler(event:TimerEvent):void {
  trace(myTimer.currentCount+" seconds have passed.");
}
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So altogether we have this.

var myTimer:Timer = new Timer(1000);
myTimer.addEventListener("timer", myTimerEventHandler);
myTimer.start();
function myTimerEventHandler(event:TimerEvent):void {
  trace(myTimer.currentCount+" seconds have passed.");
}
Code language: JavaScript (javascript)

Now you know how to use a Timer in Actionscript 3.