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/* main.js */ totalTimer: null, config: { timelimit: 30 }, init: function() { this.totalTimer = new ig.Timer(this.config.timelimit); this.totalTimer.pause(); }
I then have a timelimit entity which formats the output of ig.game.totalTimer.delta() and draws it on screen as in the screenshot.

The problem is that the timer should be paused.

And it is on my PC. Also on my iPod.
However, it is not on my iPad.

On the iPad, the timer immediately starts counting when the app loads.
And there is literally not a single totalTimer.unpause() anywhere in my code.
No errors.

Any ideas?

My "fix" which is really sloppy:
It feels really really really unnecessary, but alas here we are.

update: function() {
    // This is a silly workaround to keep the timers "paused" because
    // for some reason the iPad won't register the pause in init.
    if(!this.started) {
        this.totalTimer.reset();
        this.questionTimer.reset();
    }
}

Are you using Ejecta? If not, which browser, or framework? Which Impact version?

This was a bug in Impact, prior to version 1.21:

Fixed issue with ig.Timer pause() not working on the very first frame

There was also a bug in Ejecta where JavaScript&039;s #Number.MIN_VALUE was 0 instead of 5e-324 - I also observed this bug in Chrome for iOS and it&039;s quite likely that it's present in PhoneGap too. #ig.Timer needs this to work.

The latest version of Ejecta on github doesn't have this problem anymore.

Another quick fix for the problem is to set the timer's time to something non-zero before starting your game:

ig.Timer.time = 0.0001;
ig.main( ... );

Not using Ejecta.
Using ImpactJS version: '1.22'.
Using Safari for iPad.

It's possible that it's an Apple thing, I suppose, because the iPad is running iOS 4.3.3, and thus an older Safari.