Flex 3: Timer Won't Stop - apache-flex

Question

I'm using Flex 3 with Flash 9.
I'm trying to make a timer that will run once after 1 second. Unfortunately, me timer keeps repeating. How do I get it to stop?
public var myTimer:Timer = new Timer(1000, 1);
private function visFunc():void {
myTimer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER_COMPLETE, imageProducer);
myTimer.start();
}
private function imageProducer(event:TimerEvent):void {
var img:Image = new Image;
img.source = image_path;
img.x = 56;
img.y = (tf.y + tf.height + 40);
radioVBox.addChildAt(img, 0);
this.height = radioVBox.y + radioVBox.height +110;
myTimer.stop();
myTimer.removeEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER_COMPLETE, imageProducer);
}
Thank you.
-Laxmidi

Answer 1

I'd change my code to the following and run some tests, since I don't see any major issues... HOWEVER, if you're not debugging and/or don't have a debugger version of flashplayer running, something may be blowing up on the vbox.addChild line (for example -- null vbox). If your imageProducer function is cool, then your issue is outside of the 'calling' function.
private var myTimer : Timer;
private function visFunc():void
{
if(myTimer != null)
{
tearDownTimer();
}
myTimer = new Timer(1000,1);
myTimer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER_COMPLETE, imageProducer);
myTimer.start();
}
private function tearDownTimer():void
{
if(myTimer)
{
myTimer.stop();
myTimer.removeEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER_COMPLETE, imageProducer);
myTimer = null;
}
}
private function imageProducer(event:TimerEvent):void
{
var img:Image = new Image();
img.source = image_path;
img.x = 56;
img.y = (tf.y + tf.height + 40);
radioVBox.addChildAt(img, 0);
this.height = radioVBox.y + radioVBox.height +110;
tearDownTimer();
}