Besides exitFrames, also call it from idle's, and consider making it a
movie in a window (MIAW) so that it runs on its own.
- Tab
At 12:09 PM 11/10/00 -0600, Tony Eggleston wrote:
>I am trying to complete a timer that counts down two minutes during a game
>after the two minutes we have an "Intermission" come back and have another
>two minute period. The Timer is shown on the screen the entire time it is
>running and we are going to certain loops within the movie, based upon
>game interaction. The code I have is below and is almost working...
>however there is a freezing of the timer as director pulls questions from
>a pre-randomized list (this is done in the begging of the game before we
>start the timer). It then jumps ahead to where the timer is supposed to
>be but this is unacceptable. The timer needs to be the most critical
>function that director performs.
>Any thoughts or Ideas?
>
>on startTheTimer
> global gStartTime, gCurrentString, currTime
> -- count down
> gStartTime = the milliseconds + 120000
> gCurrentString = ""
> currTime = gStartTime - the milliseconds
> if currTime < 0 then
> currTime = 0
> end if
> showTime
>end
>
>on showTime -- I'm calling a showTime from each enterFrame
> global millisec, minString, secString, milliString, currTime,
> gCurrentString, gStartTime
> -- calculate minutes, seconds and milliseconds
> currTime = gStartTime - the milliseconds
> sec = integer(currTime/1000)
> minute = integer(sec/60)
> sec = sec - minute*60
> hour = integer(minute/60)
> minute = minute - hour*60
> millisec = millisec - sec*1000 - minute*60*1000 - hour*60*60*1000
> minString = string(minute+100).char[2..3]&":"
> secString = string(sec+100).char[2..3]
> milliString = string(millisec+1000).char[2..4]
> milliString = "."&milliString.char[1..2]
> -- create time string
> text = minString&secString -- &milliString
> -- update text member only if needed
> if text <> gCurrentString then
> member(37).text = text
> gCurrentString = text
> end if
> updateStage
>end
>
>Thanks guys,
>
>Tony Eggleston
>Imagine Media, Inc.
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