Timer Class for time logs

Posted by Theo van der Sluijs on 6 Jan 2009 in Adobe Flex/Air | 0 comments

Do you want to know how long your functions take to do there job?

Or do you have multiple functions where you want to know how long they take before they are ready ? Even better do you want to keep track of multiple timers in multiple functions?

It is possible!

Acutally it is very simple to do this, just use this class:

package com.scripts
{
        import flash.utils.getTimer; //import the timer  

        public class logtimer
        {
                public function logtimer(){
                        //TODO: implement function
                } 

           //some timer prep
        	public var startTime:Number;
        	public var endTime:Number;
            //some timer functions 

            //START TIMER FUNCTION
            public function startTimer():void {
                // Get the time when the preinitialize event is dispatched.
                startTime = getTimer();
            } 

            public function endTimer():void {
                // Get the time when the creationComplete event is dispatched.
                endTime = getTimer();
            }           

        	public function elapsedTime():Number{
            	var totalTime:Number = endTime - startTime; //calculate the ms between 

	            return totalTime; //return it !
    	    } 

        }
} 

Here’s a little app that uses this class.

Right click to rip code !

Theo van der Sluijs

Theo van der Sluijs (1975) is Software Development Manager at Bax-shop.nl. You can read more in dutch on his “Dutch Blog“, he also created Gebruikmaar.nl. He is a member of the Board of the Dutch Flex Usergroup and Goesweb.net.