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aphexyuri
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June 8, 2011
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iOS - Avoid Timer pause on app suspend

  • June 8, 2011
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I have a game that uses a tiemr to limit time for a completing a round.

When I navigte away from the game, the Timer 'pauses'...and this is undesireable.

Does anyone know how I can enable the Timer to continue, and thus seentially running out?

Any help apreciated - Thanks!

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blazejewicz
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June 8, 2011

Hello,

and this is undesireable.

Yes, but user could receive call from mom - application needs to handle going background and foreground

If application supports multitasking - one should always be prepared to save application state to restore it later,

regards,

Peter

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Rich1
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June 8, 2011

What you could do is add listeners on the Event.ACTIVATE and Event.DEACTIVATE events. On deactivation store the value of getTimer() in a variable, then on activation check what the new getTimer() value is and reduce your remaining time by the difference.

getTimer() returns the number of milliseconds the program has been running

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aphexyuriAuthor
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June 8, 2011

Yes, I was also considering this but was hoping there was something baked in to handle this.

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