Game Timer Problems

[copenhagen]

Hi

I am doing this game in flash 8 proffesionel, but my timer creates a lot of problems. I have been looking everywhere for help, but without any luck.

First I placed a dynamic textfield at frame 1 on the main timeline stage called: mySeconds in the var. field.
and placed the value 0 in the textfield on the stage.
by the way I want my timer to go from 0 to 90.

Then I wrote this code by opening the actionscript panel at frame 1 on the main timeline:

stop();
function wait() {
mySeconds++;
if (mySeconds == 90) {
gotoAndStop(70);
}
}
myTimer = setInterval(wait, 1000);

Then I place a keyframe on frame 10, 20, 30, 40 50, 60 and 70 where the player is taken to each of these keyframes during the game.

I want the timer to stop on frame 40, 50, 60 and 70 so I put this code on frame 40, 50, 60 and 70:

onEnterFrame = function(stoppo) {
clearInterval(myTimer);
myTimer = setInterval(wait, 1000);
}

the above code stops the timer, so until now the timer works great, BUT when I then write: gotoAndStop(1) after the code on frame 40, 50, 60 and 70
so the movie begin playing frame 1 again, then my timer goes crazy.

Does anybody know how to make a timer who will work in my kind of game?

[a_modified_dog]

remove the onEnterFrame = function(stoppo){ .. }

this causes the code within the function to be
repeated at the FPS setting of your movie.

simply have -

clearInterval(myTimer);
myTimer = setInterval(wait, 1000);

and on frame#1 -

stop();
clearInterval(myTimer);

function wait() {
mySeconds++;
if (mySeconds == 90) {
gotoAndStop(70);
}
}
myTimer = setInterval(wait, 1000);

[copenhagen]

Hi a_modified_dog

and thanks for your help!
I know the description of my game was a little short, so I wrote this code instead:
The code on frame 1 is untouched

and the code on the frames where I want the movie to stop the timer is like this:

clearInterval(myTimer);

Thanks again for your help I really appreciated it