Potential race condition with timers

programming flash
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Allow me to give an example:

myTimer1 :Timer = new Timer(500);
myTimer2 :Timer = new Timer(1000);

myTimer1.addEventListener(“timer”, TimerFunctionOne);
myTimer2.addEventListener(“timer2”,TimerFunctionTwo);

MyTimer1.start();

//------------------------
function TimerFunctionOne()
{
//do some operation here
myTimer1.stop();
myTimer2.start();
}

function TimerFunctionTwo()
{
//do some operation here
myTimer2.stop();
myTimer1.start();
}

Now for the tricky bit. Suppose you want this in a class, and you want the ability to pause the class. I can add states to the class which describe what it is doing at the moment, and then stop the relevant timers. However, I can’t seem to find a way to avoid the race condition where the pause function on the object is called just as one of the functions have been called through the timer, and then starts a timer again.

I can add an “if (!paused)” to the timer starters in TimerFunctionOne/Two, but that still leaves a theoretical hole (although small).

So, any thoughts on this?

raal