remove "tick" runtime event

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- stefano1234
- - Joined 3 Jul, 2017
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- 17 Jul, 2019
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I tried it in many ways and it's still not removed

runtime.removeEventListener("tick",Tick);

runtime.removeEventListener("tick",() => Tick(runtime));

el3um4s
- Joined 9 Nov, 2015
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18 Jul, 2019
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But why do you want to do this?

Have you tried deleting these lines of code?

runOnStartup(async runtime =>
{
	runtime.addEventListener("beforeprojectstart", () => OnBeforeProjectStart(runtime));
});

function OnBeforeProjectStart(runtime)
{

	runtime.addEventListener("tick", () => Tick(runtime));
}

function Tick(runtime)
{
}

Or these?

	runtime.addEventListener("tick", () => Tick(runtime));

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- 18 Jul, 2019
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I just tried it and it works for me.

You have to make sure you pass exactly the same function reference to both addEventListener and removeEventListener. If you do this:
runtime.addEventListener("tick", () => Tick(runtime));

then you haven't saved the function reference anywhere, so it's impossible to remove it. Instead you have to save the function reference to a variable like this:

const tickFunc = () => Tick(runtime); runtime.addEventListener("tick", tickFunc); // later on... runtime.removeEventListener("tick", tickFunc);

That ensures you pass the same function reference to both methods. Note if you try to remove () => Tick(runtime) again, or just Tick, those are both different functions to the one you added the event with so it won't work.