Comments on: Flash simple timer/countdown

By: mooky

mooky — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 10:48:22 +0000

How to stop at ZERO

Look my code >>>

start_time = getTimer();
countdown = 1200000;
onEnterFrame = function () {
elapsed_time = getTimer()-start_time;
_root.count.text = time_to_string(elapsed_time);
_root.count_down.text = time_to_string(_root.countdown-elapsed_time);
};
function time_to_string(time_to_convert) {
elapsed_hours = Math.floor(time_to_convert/3600000);
remaining = time_to_convert-(elapsed_hours*3600000);
elapsed_minutes = Math.floor(remaining/60000);
remaining = remaining-(elapsed_minutes*60000);
elapsed_seconds = Math.floor(remaining/1000);
remaining = remaining-(elapsed_seconds*1000);
elapsed_fs = Math.floor(remaining/10);
if (elapsed_hours<10) {
hours = "0"+elapsed_hours.toString();
} else {
hours = elapsed_hours.toString();
}
if (elapsed_minutes<10) {
minutes = "0"+elapsed_minutes.toString();
} else {
minutes = elapsed_minutes.toString();
}
if (elapsed_seconds<10) {
seconds = "0"+elapsed_seconds.toString();
} else {
seconds = elapsed_seconds.toString();
}
if (elapsed_fs<10) {
hundredths = "0"+elapsed_fs.toString();
} else {
hundredths = elapsed_fs.toString();
}
return hours+":"+minutes+":"+seconds+":"+hundredths;
}

Thanks for your help

By: Kayro

Kayro — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:02:38 +0000

I need a similar countdown and countup that counts dollars, rather than time, for a fundraising site. Can you help, or direct me to a script source?

By: Chetan

Chetan — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 05:03:24 +0000

Thank you for the wonderful countdown timer! So far so good, but I have one problem that seems to be a common theme amongst the commenters.

I’ve tried all the suggestions in the comments on how to stop the countdown at 0, but i’m having no luck. If someone could be gracious enough to send me a copy of the complete code modified to stop at 0 that would be great.

If it helps, I’m currently using the 00:00:00:00 format, and I’m trying to create a simple 10 minute countdown that stops at 0 and resets back to 10 minutes. The resultant flash movie is going to be embedded into a powerpoint slide to be used in a presentation.

my email address is chetankania [at] gmail [dot] com

Thank you again!

By: Vahid

Vahid — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 21:52:06 +0000

JohnBoi, to stop the timer from shaking, use JUSTIFY property for dynamic txt.

By: JohnBoi

JohnBoi — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 01:18:23 +0000

Hey I need to know how to stop the timer from shaking?

By: Jay

Jay — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 06:54:14 +0000

It kinda works for me, I’m using the coutdown only. The problem is, when I start my game, the timer goes about 3 milliseconds then stops. Any help?

By: Cat

Cat — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 07:15:10 +0000

For those of you looking for a countdown timer for seconds, that will go to another scene after time is up, this worked for me (found on this link: http://groups.google.com/group/macromedia.flash/browse_thread/thread/cbde84211c16ccd7)

I replaced

trace(“countdown complete”);

with

gotoAndPlay(“Scene 2″, 1);

——————————————–

var countdown_time:Number = 10;
var counter:Number = countdown_time;

countdown_txt.autoSize = “right”;

function countdown() {
counter–;
countdown_txt.text = counter;
if (counter == 0) {
gotoAndPlay(“Scene 2″, 1);
clearInterval(intID);
}

}

countdown_txt.text = countdown_time;
intID = setInterval(countdown,1000);

By: Peter

Peter — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:55:12 +0000

How do I make more digits. For example, once the Hours reaches 99, does it reset? Is there anyway to do it so if It reaches 99:99:99:99 then there is another digit thingy. IE: It goes to 01:00:00:00:00 when 1 second passes after 99:99:99:99?

Please respond and help me if you can
My email is pstarus@gmail.com

By: ccmqv

ccmqv — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:25:33 +0000

So do I have to add another frame so the time would stop.

If so how do you add the second frame?

By: alex

alex — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 14:14:01 +0000

question, when i insert the time in my html and upload both to the web (they are in the same folder)
i dont see the timer, please advice