class org.aswing.util.Timer extends AbstractImpulser

Fires one or more action events after a specified delay. For example, an animation object can use a Timer as the trigger for drawing its frames.

Setting up a timer involves creating a Timer object, registering one or more action listeners on it, and starting the timer using the start method. For example, the following code creates and starts a timer that fires an action event once per second (as specified by the first argument to the Timer constructor). The second argument to the Timer constructor specifies a listener to receive the timer's action events.

 var delay:Number = 1000; //milliseconds
 var listener:Object = new Object();
 listener.taskPerformer = function(e:Event) {
         //...Perform a task...
     }
 var timer:Timer = new Timer(delay);
 timer.addActionListener(listener.taskPerformer);
 timer.start();

@author paling