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It seems like you could replace all of your setTimeout and setIntervals in your code using something simple like: var foo=0; TweenMax.to(foo, 1, { onComplete:function(){ // do something } }); Of course you could use repeat:-1 and onRepeat to make this a setInterval, too. Note that I Tween a generic variable as opposed to a DOM element to avoid the cost of accessing the DOM. Now this comes with several benefits such as the ability to pause, resume, or even killing all timers with a one-line command (which is very useful for me). I made a DOM-based webgame that is entirely timer and event driven, meaning that it was designed without using any game loop at all. Upon discovering the ability to use something like TweenMax.pauseAll(), I realized it would actually be possible to pause all animations, and even timers, if I changed my setTimeouts to TweenMax timers instead. Implementing a pause feature in my game would be a pretty big deal. So is this a good idea? I also noticed that chained setTimeouts tend to lose their timing while TweenMax does not. For example I have button timers that indicate the number of seconds remaining until a skill button is ready to be used, and it updates the seconds remaining every second. In reality the setTimeout is actually running a little bit late depending on how busy the processor has been, but if I use TweenMax timers, it will always be very precise and every second is almost exactly one second of delay (notably, setInterval does not appear to suffer from this timing problem). I particularly noticed this when I developed analog clocks for my website at work and I noticed that all four clocks kept absolute perfect timing no matter how much was going on or how long the webpage was running. Very cool. Any thoughts or feedback on this? I have over 1000+ setTimeouts/setIntervals throughout 70,000+ lines of code so this would be a drastic re-work. -
Is there a way to delay the start of a TweenMax, similar to a setTimeout ? setTimeout( function () { TweenMax.staggerFromTo( $box, 0.3, { y: 0}, { y: -100}, 0.10); }, 400 );
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I'm noticing that TweenLite keeps looping over some functions, even though no tweens have been initiated. Firebug's Profile shows that there are 4 functions that keep running, on lines 278, 830, 227 and 703. (TweenLite.js, dated 29.1.2013) Is there a way to kill those timers? The load they cause is really minimal, but I'd like to clean them up anyways.
