Global timer control

Question

hi all-
I'm writing a video game and I have used timers all over the
place to make everything go. now I want to be able to pause the
game, completely. meaning, I need to stop and start all timer
instances at once, or globally.
so I created a Timer subclass called CustomTimer, put some
statics in there, came up with the attached code. now my problem is
that I'm pretty sure I've created a memory leak, in that the
instances array will just grow and wont allow or gc.
so, my question is, is there an "onDestroy()" method or
somesuch, that I can override, and use that moment to remove
instance refs from the instances array?
or, is there a smarter way to do this? an application object
w/ a pause method perhaps?
thanks

Answer 1

I'm not sure if I understand. You say this: "once the only
ref to the CustomTimer instance is in that array.", but aren't you
adding instances of CustomTimer to the instances array every time
you create a CustomTimer? That's what the CustomTimer constructor
is doing. That would imply that there are multiple instances of
CustomTimer in the instances array.
In any case, you could add this to CustomTimer:
public static function removeTimer(timer:Timer):void
var len:int = instances.length;
for (var i:int; i<len; i++)
if (timer==instances
instances = instances.splice;
return;
}