Re: FLASH: get timer not working right

[Helen Triolo]

Thanks for the reply, Jon.  The textfield idea is a great one for

general debugging.  The problem was mine, not getTimer's -- I somehow

put the 2 frames of the movieclip into frames 201/202 instead of 1/2 (so

all those extra frames got executed and added to the time delay) and

didn't notice until I was adding textfields for debugging.  Don't know

how I did it (maybe I moved the timeline scrollbar when I mean to move

the stage scrollbar?), but I guess I'll make every single mistake

possible before I finish with Flash...


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Jon Williams wrote:

> 

> double-check that the startTime variable is

> being set at the right time and not 13 secs early

> (say at the beginning of the load sequence instead

> of at the end of it).

> 

> if that doesn't help, drop in some textboxes and

> watch the variables change...standard story...

>


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