Re: FLASH: Reach elapse time then close

[Helen Triolo]

"Q. Paradigm" wrote:

> 

> Put all of these actions into a MC:

> 

> Frame 1:

> Stop

> 

> Frame 2:

> Set Variable: "BaseLine" = Int (GetTimer/1000)

> 

> Frame 3:

> If ( ( ( Int(GetTimer /1000) ) - BaseLine) > 5)

>     Call ("/scripts:CloseAll")

>     Set Variable: "OverState" = True

> End If

> 

> Frame 4:

> Goto frame 2 and play

> 

> You can then plop this MC on the stage and tell target to it to Play

> whenever you want to time something.

> 

> The reason you have to do this is because you are only allowed loops with

> 20000 actions or fewer in them. An MC must be used to do this kind of

> looping.

> 

Shouldn't frame 4 be Goto frame *3* and play?  You don't want to reset

the BaseLine variable in each loop. And also, how do you ever get from

frame 1 to frame 2 if there's a stop action in 1?  Is frame 2 labelled

and you tell target to that frame?  But I see the point of doing it this

way, I think--it's to introduce extra time delay by going from frame to

frame so that the total time you're checking for is much less than the

total possible time that could elapse before flash quits (=200000*fps, a

big number, instead of 200000*processor speed, a small number, or

something like that).


Helen

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