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Do I need to destroy timers, or is disabling them fine?

 
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Valatros
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 11, 2017 11:52 pm    Post subject: Do I need to destroy timers, or is disabling them fine? Reply with quote
Basically the subject; I have some auto assembler entries that disable the timer on Disable and reenable it on Enable. That enough, or do I have a timer (possibly several) ticking away in the background using up memory for no reason while timer.Enabled=false?
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 12, 2017 12:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
If you're creating them in the enable section then yes you'd need to destroy it otherwise a new one will be created each time the script is enabled
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 12, 2017 4:13 am    Post subject: This post has 1 review(s) Reply with quote
Code:

[Enable]
if timer ~= nil
then
timer.Enabled = true
else
timer = createTimer()
timer.Interval = 1000
timer.Whatver = bla
end

[Disable]
timer.Enabled = false



TOOO much code just use Destroy()
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 12, 2017 12:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Excellent, thank you; I actually just had the timer being created on running the script the first time. I like akumakuja28's solution better though; that way if I'm not using the associated cheats it's not there in the background pointlessly.
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