---
title: "Remove Timer Event"
description: "Demonstrates how to stop and remove a looping timer event programmatically once a specific condition has been met."
phaser: "4.1.0"
size: "800x600"
files: 1
url: https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/time/view/remove-timer-event
site: Phaser - https://phaser.io
---

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# Remove Timer Event

Demonstrates how to stop and remove a looping timer event programmatically once a specific condition has been met.

A Phaser 4.1.0 example in [Time](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/time.md). It runs at 800 × 600, and loads its assets from https://cdn.phaserfiles.com/v410. See it running, with its code, at https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/time/view/remove-timer-event.

To run it, load Phaser 4.1.0 (`https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/phaser@4.1.0/dist/phaser.min.js`), then the file, on a page with a `<div id="game-container">`.

## Code

### remove timer event.js

```js
class Example extends Phaser.Scene
{
    timedEvent;
    c = 0;
    text;
    image;

    preload ()
    {
        this.load.setBaseURL('https://cdn.phaserfiles.com/v410');
        this.load.image('einstein', 'assets/pics/ra-einstein.png');
    }

    create ()
    {
        this.image = this.add.image(400, 300, 'einstein');

        this.text = this.add.text(32, 32);

        this.timedEvent = this.time.addEvent({ delay: 500, callback: this.onEvent, callbackScope: this, loop: true });
    }

    update ()
    {
        this.text.setText(`Event.progress: ${this.timedEvent.getProgress().toString().substr(0, 4)}\nEvent removed at 10: ${this.c}`);
    }

    onEvent ()
    {
        this.image.rotation += 0.04;

        this.c++;

        if (this.c === 10)
        {
            this.timedEvent.remove(false);
        }
    }
}

const config = {
    scale: { mode: Phaser.Scale.FIT },
    type: Phaser.CANVAS,
    width: 800,
    height: 600,
    backgroundColor: '#2d2d2d',
    parent: 'game-container',
    scene: Example
};

const game = new Phaser.Game(config);
```

## More in Time

- [Draw Clocks](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/time/view/draw-clocks.md): Learn how to use the progress value of multiple Timer Events to drive custom visual animations using Graphics objects.
- [Looped Event](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/time/view/looped-event.md): Use the Time Manager to create a repeating timer event that triggers a callback function at a fixed interval indefinitely.
- [Multiple Timers](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/time/view/multiple-timers.md): Learn how to manage multiple simultaneous timer events. This example demonstrates how to create several looped timers with varying delays and visualize their individual progress using text and graphics.
- [Pause and Resume Timer Events](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/time/view/pause-and-resume.md): Demonstrates how to toggle the paused state of a Timer Event. This example uses a pointer click to stop and start a repeating timer that modifies an image's scale and rotation.
- [Repeat Count](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/time/view/repeat-count.md): Demonstrates how to use the repeat property in a Timed Event to execute a callback multiple times and monitor the remaining repeat count and event progress.
- [Reuse a Timer Event](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/time/view/reuse-a-timer-event.md): Demonstrates how to manually create a Timer Event instance and restart it by re-adding it to the Scene's Clock.
- [Timer Event](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/time/view/timer-event.md): Demonstrates how to create a single-use timer event using delayedCall and monitor its completion progress in the update loop.
- [Timer Event Start At](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/time/view/start-at.md): Demonstrates how to use the 'startAt' property to offset the initial start time of a repeating timer event, effectively starting the first iteration partway through the delay.
- [Timer Event Time Scale](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/time/view/time-scale.md): Demonstrates how to use the timeScale property to speed up or slow down individual Timer Events relative to the scene clock.
- [Visualizing Timer Progress](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/time/view/clock.md): Demonstrates how to use a Timer Event's getProgress and getOverallProgress methods to visually represent current iteration time and total sequence progress.

---

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