# TIMER question

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/timer-question/284616>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [March 20, 2009, 10:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/timer-question/284616 "2009-03-20T22:28:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![rondog](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/rondog/32/2478_2.png) [@rondog](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/rondog)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2009, 10:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/timer-question/284616/1 "2009-03-20T22:28:20Z")

</div>

Say I create a new timer:

```auto

var seekTimer:Timer = new Timer(1000,5);
seekTimer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, seekTimerHandler);
seekTimer.start();

```

Now that will run 5 times. Does it automatically remove its event listener after 5 times?