Framerates by default are set to 40 FPS. If you happen to have a reference to the stage, you can use the stage.frameRate property. That way you have a solution for all frame rates.
I would use an enterFrame solution like callLater, then just check the time within a while loop. Greetz Erik On 5/24/08, Josh McDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Guys, > > If I have a long list of things to process as a background task, I figure a > good way to do it is a piece at a time with callLater(). However I'd like to > be able to detect if I'm taking too long per block and running into the next > frame. Also, I'd like to do more per cycle if my app finds itself running on > a ninja machine :) > > Anyone have any tips for this sort of thing? Should I just be using the > timer and striving for 1/4 of a frame measured in ms? What framerate are > Flex SWFs set to run at normally? > > Cheers, > -J > > -- >