Saving game timer events during switch between states

[Rustam]

Hello! 

How to save game timer events, when I switch to next state?

I'm use:

game.state.start(GameState[GameState.Win], false, false);

But on Win state all timer events of previous state are destroyed :(

Thanks.

[drhayes]

You can't, lots of stuff gets destroyed when switching states. Here's a link to the function in the StateManager that does it: https://github.com/photonstorm/phaser/blob/8399073fde8e242ef0a5beddcf165bc0c7fc84f0/src/core/StateManager.js#L401

So you want to save timer events -- how come? What problem is this a solution for?

[Rustam]

I have got 2 states: Win and Ready. On Win state I am showing win panel and starting timer for animate to collect my WonScores to TotalScores. But I need to switch to Ready state immediately after Win (after showing panel), NOT after win timer complete.

[drhayes]

It kinda sounds like you need to maybe cancel the timers and immediately run their callbacks on state change?

When it's phrased like that, you could do something like this:

var timeEvent = this.game.timer.events.add(this.myFunction, this);
/// ...then, later, on state change...
this.game.timer.events.remove(timeEvent);
timeEvent.callback.call(timeEvent.callbackContext);

 

[Rustam]

Thanks, drhayes! I decided this question with a similar way