Re: FLASH: A way for an accurate delay using Loop while??

[Wayne Townsend]

>Hi all,

>

>I need to make a timer in flash that will play a frame after 1 

>second. I have tried the timer at 

>http://www.moock.org/webdesign/flash/ but I can still notice a 

>slight delay when using sounds. I think this is because Flash isn't 

>very accurate when looping between frames. And I need for it to play 

>very accurately once every second. The only way I can think of is to 

>use the Loop action. However I keep running into problems where I 

>get errors saying that flash exceeded 200,000 actions. Has anyone 

>had any success in getting flash to play at a consistent speed?


You can use a timer loop.


Set up 3 frames where you want the delay.


Frame 1:

Action:

Set Variable: "theTicks" = 1000  (Approximately 1 second per 1000)

Set Variable: "targetTime" = GetTimer

Set Variable: "targetTime" = targetTime + theTicks


Frame 2:

Label: "timeloop1"


Frame 3:

Set Variable: "thetime" = GetTimer

If (thetime < targetTime)

       Go to and Play ("timeloop1")

End If


There might be a better way, but this one works for me.  You can fine 

tune "theTicks" - it's *around* 1000 per sec.


HTH,


/wayne


Wayne Townsend

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