Re: FLASH: Pausing

[Laura Mollett]

>   just tested it

> they are the same :(

>  Layer#0:

> Variable_level10:whatever="5540"

> Variable_level10:whatever1="5540"

>>it's a watch, keeping a constantly changing value in microseconds.

> amaizing! in this very microsecond flash execute all the events in this

> frame

> put even 20 variables , stop,  play  on the same frame they would be the

> same..

>

> Ilia


Hmm, this is interesting... it appears that the timer actually counts from

32, or it takes the first number it gets and then counts in 32 or something

of that nature. I have a slow computer and I'm sure that's part of the

difference. I was testing this in a movie with a lot of images (with tons of

curves) on the frames, requiring a lot of processing speed. Since you posted

this, I've been playing with it in a movie with nothing else in it at all.


In a single frame movie, with nothing else in it whatsoever, with this code

in one frame action:

Set Variable: "whatever" = GetTimer

Trace (whatever)

Set Variable: "whatever2" = GetTimer

Trace (whatever2)


the output the first time I test movie is:

48

128

(or something of that nature)


and everytime I test the same movie without making a change, I get two 32s

for the output. I guess the first time it runs, opening the output window

seems to be making it take some time.


If I add a calculation between the two set variables, like:

Set Variable: "whatever" = GetTimer

Trace (whatever)

Set Variable: "test" = (2/3)

Trace ("test")

Set Variable: "whatever2" = GetTimer

Trace (whatever2)


I get things like:

32

0.666666666666667

176

48

0.666666666666667

32

32

0.666666666666667

32

48

0.666666666666667

192


with some, but not a lot of variation. I guess some things take more time

than others, and once it's done it, it's faster? I dunno. But they certainly

don't invariably come out the same for me, especially on the first time it's

called (well I think that's because it's opening the output window).


Laura


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