Re: FLASH: Creating a stopwatch / game timer

[Thorsten Schmiedel]

Hi Paul,


there are quite a lot of tutes out there covering this topic (e.g.

flashkit.com and some others; don't remember the urls).

However, I ripped a timer function off one the games I made and put it here

for you:


http://www.three-2-one.com/thosch/timer.zip


It currently uses small bitmaps as chars (like I said, it's ripped out of a

game which was set to low quality for better performance, so I used bitmaps

wherever possible), but it should be no problem to use standard vektor-font

instead. If you use the textfields as variables, you can save lots of data,

like; you can change the value of the textfields instead of addressing a

different frame in the seconds- and minutes-clips.


Hope this helps a bit,


greetings,


Thorsten  


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From: "Paul Steven" <p [dot] stevenbtinternet [dot] com>

>

Reply-To: flasherchinwag [dot] com

> Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:01:49 +0100

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To: <flasherchinwag [dot] com>

> Subject: FLASH: Creating a stopwatch / game timer

> 

> Hi all

> 

> I am creating a simple quiz game that requires a timer - i.e the player has

> 60 seconds to complete 20 questions. I want to display a digital count down

> of this 60 seconds and be able to stop and start the timer. I can't figure

> out how to do this. Has anyone done anything similar or can point me in the

> direction of a tutorial on this.

> 

> Thanks in advance

> 

> Paul

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