addTimer not working

[MrKnubbles]

Hello. I've been trying to add a timer to my game and have followed all the examples precisely and it will not work.

I'm creating an object and want the object to do something every second. If I use this.addTimer, I get an error saying this.addTimer is not a function. If I use game.scene.addTimer, I get no errors but the code inside never triggers.

 

Here is an example:

 Crate = game.Class.extend({
        init: function()
        {            game.scene.addTimer(1000, function() { console.log("timer"); }, true); }});

[LinkTree]

What engine version? I tested in v2 and game.scene.addTimer(1000, function() { console.log("timer"); works fine.

The reason this.addTimer didn't work in your example is because this refers to the Class class you are extending and it doesn't have an addTimer method.

if you wanted your class to have an addTimer method you could extend the Container class instead, or use the Timer class in your own class in a similar way to how the Container/Scene classes are using it.

http://ekelokorpi.github.io/panda.js-site/engine/docs/files/src_engine_scene.js.html#l131

[SkyzohKey]

@MrKnubbles You're using PandaJS v1, which is pretty much dead. Let' switch to PandaJS v2.

You can take a look at the following links that got updated for v2:

• New PandaJS website
• PandaJS docs v2
• PandaJS playground v2

Hope you'll like Panda

[MrKnubbles]

Sorry. I just downloaded what was on the Panda.js website. I didn't see any versions, just a single download.

[MrKnubbles]

I did find out that my issue was not because of the timer itself. It was the way my object was created. I was trying to access the wrong property.