Comments on: Tutorial - Creating a Timer in ActionScript 3

By: MIssy

MIssy — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:42:07 +0000

sorry, read part 3 about date()

you can do a quick fix by setting up some variables to hold the month, date, year and then do a quick math subtract to offset the month so you don’t remember the date() function reads months differently.

By: MIssy

MIssy — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:40:51 +0000

sorry, scratch that part 3 about date()

By: MIssy

MIssy — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:34:24 +0000

wave you have to put the month one digit back…

so if you want october you put 9 not 10.
see the paragraph in the writeup (part 6) about this.

not sure why the programmer/developer didn’t code it so it did months 1 through 12 like NORMAL PEOPLE read it and not like Flash month array functionality which starts at zero for January to 11 for December…

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:40:47 +0000

I am searching for a short timer that will count down from 5 minutes to zero. Any suggestions. I am completely new to Action Script. I have CS3 so I would like help in AS3 if possible. Thanks. Matt

By: Anthony

Anthony — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:54:55 +0000

Great tutorial!! But, how can I get it to read the time from a serve so that I can use it on my website??

Cheers

Anthony

By: nihad

nihad — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 20:11:52 +0000

Since I did not see a response to ‘Jean-Sébastien Dussault’ with the playheadTime showing up in trace but not showing up in the dynamic text. Simply ensure your dynamic text font in NOT embedded.

I hope this helps someone.

Thanks

By: Chepi

Chepi — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 07:07:11 +0000

Thank you dude! This tutorial saved my behind BIG TIME!

All the love from South America’s hottest spot…

By: Alin Danila

Alin Danila — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:24:48 +0000

nice tutorial .. would be even better if you would implement timezone difference to it.

By: robb

robb — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 18:37:51 +0000

great script! one question I have is how do I get the timer to stop at the specified zero time? or can I have a function that will send it to a different frame?

thanks in advance

By: Wave

Wave — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:32:08 +0000

I’m getting something weird with the days …
if i make the timer to be in 2 hours ..
the days are showing 30 ..
or if i make it to be in 2 days …
the days are showing 32 …

i thought i wrote it wrong but even you fla file is doing the same …
i’m very new to AS .. even more with AS3 ..

can you help me ? thank you .
great tutorial by the way .. i like the way you explain ..