Question

I am tinkering with goog.Timer and reading its API: http://closure-library.googlecode.com/svn/docs/class_goog_Timer.html

Is there a way to set the current time or tick for the timer? For instance, can I set the current time into the timer to be 5000 milliseconds?

Answer 1

goog.Timer is an abstraction above window.setInterval that repeatedly dispatches a goog.Timer.TICK event at a set interval. The interval may be specified using the first constructor parameter or the method setInterval().

Here is an example that increments a tick counter once every 5 seconds.

var tickCount = 0;

/**
 * Tick callback.
 */
var tickCounter = function() {
  tickCount++;
};

var timer = new goog.Timer(5000);
timer.start();
goog.events.listen(timer, goog.Timer.TICK, tickCounter);