Re: FLASH: Timer

[John Croteau]

Hi Jason,


> Any ideas how to set a timer?

None what-so-ever.


> I need to set a timer to delay a loop by

> 50 milliseconds each time it loops.

For short duration time delays 'While' loops are ideal.

For a 50 millisecond delay use:


On (Press)

      Set Variable: "Start" = GetTimer

      Loop While (x < 50)

            Set Variable: "x" = (GetTimer - Start)

      End Loop

      Go to and Play (2)

End On


In one of my my simple tests, I could do a while time check loop up to

2563 milliseconds without fail. At 2.564 seconds it failed 

  (More than 200000 actions were executed in one action list.)

Other tests failed between 2 and 3 seconds as well.


In genearal I would use 'While' timing loops if they are at least 2

seconds or less, and if actions in the loop or elsewhere in the frame

are complicated then the maximum While loop time could be a lot less.


Longer delays need to involve changing frames on the timeline, such as

if loops.


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