Timer

The Timer class allows you to create asynchronous timers on platforms that support events.

The intended usage is to create an instance of the Timer class with a given interval, set its run() method to a custom function to be invoked and eventually call stop() to stop the Timer.

Note that a running Timer may or may not prevent the program to exit automatically when main() returns.

It is also possible to extend this class and override its run() method in the child class.

Notice for threaded targets: Timer instances require threads they were created in to run with Haxe's event loops. Main thread of a Haxe program always contains an event loop. For other cases use sys.thread.Thread.createWithEventLoop and sys.thread.Thread.runWithEventLoop methods.

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Returns a timestamp, in seconds with fractions.

The value itself might differ depending on platforms, only differences between two values make sense.

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