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Subject:	Re: FLASH: actionscript delay timer
From:	Darren Critchley
Date:	Mon, 1 May 2000 21:18:50 +0100

Matt Perkins wrote:

> given that delaytime = 500 this sould delay for 500 miliseconds right?
> but flash errors out saying that a loop executed more than 200,000 times ...
> what's wrong?
>
> Set Variable: "now" = GetTimer
> Set Variable: "then" = now + delaytime
> Loop While (now <= then)
> Set Variable: "now" = GetTimer
> End Loop
>

Flash thinks this is an endless loop. Fix it by doing this:

Frame1 = Set Variable: "now" = GetTimer

Frame2 = Set Variable: "then" = now + delaytime
Frame3 = If now <= then goto and play Frame2
else goto and play Frame4
end if
Frame4= continue with movie

Darren.

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