Trigger a function after 1 minute while the app is open.

Question

Hey guys, I wrote a simple widget that reads from a rss file. My question is what's a good way to repeat a function every minute? The widget could run up to 8 hours straight..
Any ideas? I'd like to trigger bugsFeed.send(); once a minute.
thanks!

Answer 1

Example code:
import flash.utils.Timer;
import flash.events.TimerEvent;
// create a timer that fires every minute
public var timer:Timer = new Timer( 60*1000 );
public function init():void
     // add event listeners
     timer.addEventListener( TimerEvent.TIMER, handleTimerEvent );
     // start the timer
     timer.start();
public function handleTimerEvent( event:TimerEvent ):void
     bugsFeed.send();
Let me know if that helps...
Ben Edwards