Re: FLASH: Time Delay Plug and Play Routine

[John Croteau]

Hi James,


> Just wanted to send a big thank you to John - you are the best!  I've been

> looking for a way to do a timer function for quite some time, but have

> never really had time to pursue it.  This is almost exactly what I was

> looking for and will certainly give me a great foundation to work with.

Great


> >From the quick tests I've run, it seems to be very accurate with my system

> clock.  Any ideas how it might react on other machines

Should work just fine, everything is Flash.

The only question is if we wll get occasional slight deviations when the

system is maxed out. In other words does GetTimer lose time if the

system has no resources to give Flash.


> - is processing, ram, or OS a factor?

No, with the above possible exception. 


>  If so, how great of a factor might it be?

The only inaccuracy noted so far is the down time when looping between

Flash frames (when we can't check the time).

So it is about .05 seconds average varying between 0 and .1 seconds.

Only for small time increments does this make much af a difference.

This works out good because for delays less than one second you should

have no or few problems with Loop While and its failing because of the

200,000 player loop limit has been exceeded.


I also did tests where I checked the time in both frames and there was

no detectable difference in the overage between the two methods.


> Any idea what the maximum time is that this will count without error?

No, practical limit - hours or days of delay shoild not be a problem.

The current version should meet most needs.


In the future we will likely add a more accurate version that will

eliminate the .05 second average time overage by combining the If loop

with a Loop While which will take over the countdown once it gets under

a certain time. As I do more testing I'll have a better idea of what

point that should be.


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