http://livedocs.adobe.com/ Macromedia LiveDocs - online documentation with user feedback. Copyright 2009, Macromedia, Inc. 2009-11-25T22:41:53 en-us http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/main/00000074.html#86556 When using extremely short time intervals (<20-30 milliseconds), your timer is competing for attention with other function calls and even itself. The runtime may not be able to call the timer event handler at the exact instant the event is scheduled to be generated. Joe ... Ward 1 1 2008-08-08T11:09:15 http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/main/00000074.html#86322 It would be nice if the docs pointed out that the timer event overshoots it's intervals if the interval time is very small, around 10 milliseconds. I had an issue where I was using a timer object to keep track of my time, and display it on the screen. It seem that time was "slowing" down every time I ran my fla. 0 0 2008-08-01T07:30:03 http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/main/00000074.html#67208 Well, I found the answer to my question. <br /><br />1. The Timer object in AS3 dispatches the TimeEvent.TIMER event - this behavior is similar to an interval in AS2 as it can launch a function. <br />2. You create an event listener that listens to the TimeEvent.TIMER event. Register it with the addEventListener method of your Timer object. That event listener can update the animation content every time it is called by the event. <br />3. When the animation content is updated, you call the TimerEvent.updateAfterEvent() method, in the very same listener function that updated the animation. This will refresh the stage independently of the fps, showing the updated animation state. <br /><br />This way you can achieve animation of an element far smoother (i.e. more frequently refreshed) than the set fps would allow, using the new Timer object. AMPO webdesign&multimedia 0 0 2007-05-22T12:03:28 http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/main/00000074.html#67177 What about updateAfterEvent, does it work with Timer object in AS3? In AS2 you can use the updateAfterEvent together with intervals to create smooth script-driven animations independent of the fps (frames per second) set in the swf file. Is it still possible to do such fps-independent script-driven animations in AS3? AMPO webdesign&multimedia 0 0 2007-05-22T02:57:51