Actionscript 3.0 :: Control Firing Order Of MC's With Timer Class?
Sep 11, 2010
I am working on a card game.When the game initializes, 2 cards get dealt to the dealer and 2 to the player. Each card MC is created dynamically. When you hit the deal button, the cards are dealt, but all appear at the same time. So i figured i would try using the Timer class in order to delay each card so they are dealt one-at-a-time. Seemed easy enough, but evidently i am missing something obvious and probably embarrassing. The short, simple code, which i expected to be a no-brainer, doesn't seem to want to work. My ignorance with the Timer class isn't helping where i am going wrong or if i am way out in left field? I created a Timer that repeats 4 times(repeatCount). I was thinking that i could target e.repeatCount with a case statement and fire off each card. I can't seem to get it working though.
Code: Select allimport flash.events.TimerEvent;
import flash.utils.Timer;
var dealTimer:Timer = new Timer(200, 4);
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Code: Select all// We need to import the utils package
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