setInterval irregularity?

programming flash
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Hi, I am having some strangeness occur with the setInterval function. I am using it to call a function which loads a dynamic image. At the moment, I have it set to call the function every 1000*numberSeconds (which is set at the moment to 10). So, theoretically, it should call that funciton every 10 seconds. Although it generally follows that pattern, I have noticed that this functions seems to be called early a sporatic number of times. Sometimes it gets called in 5 seconds, sometimes 7 seconds, sometimes 8 seconds, etc. It never seems to take more than 11 or 12 seconds though.

I was wondering if anyone knows why this function seems to be random sometimes? I am not doing anything special that should make it act crazy. Since I am just doing

[AS]setInterval(newMovie, 1000*numberSeconds);[/AS]

That should be pretty stable and nice, right? Well, that doesn’t seem tto be the case, at least not consistently. Has anyone else had similar problems? Does anyone know a cure or fix? Thanks

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well setInterval isnt exact. Whether or not other circumstances are involved in its misbehavior, Im not sure. But 5 seconds from 10 does seem a little off.

If you want something more exact you might want to consider onEnterFrame with getTimer()