Got the time? Script for adding a clock to a console...

[seeddesign]

Hey folks. How do I make the time appear on a console in a designated spot? I want there to be no background and if it was possible to also display seconds, that would be awesome.

J

[Duncher Muncher]

Jason me again.

do you know how to use the date object? probably the best way to handle that is to have some sort of two frame loop that creates a new date object and then a text box that displays it. you can set the text box to have no border or background easily enough then it's just a matter of getting the date object into a meaningfull format that you can display. Shouldn't be too hard.

[seeddesign]

I'm actually clueless here. Would you be willing to explain it in more detail? T'would be much appreciated.

J

[Duncher Muncher]

Alright.

first thing is to set up a two frame loop. On frame two have this comand:
gotoAndPlay(1);

this will cause the movie to loop over two frames. Then you have to set up a variable for your date object, something like this:

myDate = new Date(); /*this should be on frame one*/
myTimeDisplay = myDate.getHours() + ":" + myDate.getMinutes() + ":" myDate.getSeconds(); /*this will give you the hours, minutes and seconds of the time according to the operating system that the flash player is running on*/

Then all you need is a text box that has myTimeDisplay as the variable. That should work ok, let me know. The text box should span both frame one and two.