Early on in developing Central apps, I found that I needed something to manage all my Intervals in an application. It was important to have a central place that I could identify, create, and clear intervals, so I developed a singleton manager (IntervalManager) to handle this. In addition, I overloaded the setInterval method, so that one could create delayed calls like setTimeout in javascript, or create an interval that ran N number of times. I managed this by adding a prefixed param N to the setInterval method, which if used tells the interval to run N times, and if not defaults to normal setInterval behavior. Below is the class with usage definitions.
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