Re: FLASH: get current time within flash?

[Nathan Dicken]

Hi Matt and others...


I hope you don't mind me posting this (Matt) but last year we needed to do

just this with the Lumichron Clock Builder...

(www.lumichron.com/clockbuilder.cfm)  Thought I'd post what I have - feel

free to add anything to it and post what you have (I'd like to see that

too).


(this is an example of the chunk of code that resides in the html/javscript

from when you publish your movie using the FSCommand template)



  if (command == "initialize") {

       var now = new Date();

       var hours = now.getHours();

       var minutes = now.getMinutes();

       var seconds = now.getSeconds();


       // hours comes in 0-24 hrs... convert if needed


       if (hours > 12) {

              hours = (hours - 12);

       }

       if (hours == 0) {

              hours = 12;

       }

  }



Hope that helps...

Nathan


Nathan Dicken

Fusionary Media




>Hi Brett -

>

>You wrote:

>

>>I just wanted to see if anyone knew of a way to get the current time within

>>flash without using javascript?

>

>Without JavaScript, Flash 4 cannot get the user's time. Sorry.

>

>It's possible to read the time in *from the server* via a server-side

>script (like ASP, for example). This would give you the server's local

>time, and not the user's.

>

>The only way I know of to get the user's date and/or time into Flash is by

>using JavaScript. I'll happily post a way to do this if you ask. :>)

>

>Matt



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