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I made a countdown, but how can i change the colors of the digits in intervals?
Hi there. I have been tasked with creating a countdown for a splash page. I am not too familiar with flash so I took a couple online lessons and found some great sources to help me come up with a countdown which you can see here. http://www.swfcabin.com/open/1376959235
Now, my colleauge asked if it is possible to have the numbers turn red on each circle, which i was able to accomplish here: http://www.swfcabin.com/open/1376958743
If you notice, the countdown no longer works on on the second example and I keep getting an error message and I honestly have no idea what's going on. I tried playing with the timeline with no success and my capacity with ActionScript 3 is beginner at best. I was actually able to find an online tutorial that gave me some code to use and i just played around with it for my use.
Here is the error message i get:
TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference.
at BirthdayCountdown_fla::MainTimeline/loop()
Here is the code I am using:
var targetDateate = new Date(2014, 7, 8, 15);
addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, loop);
function loop(e:Event):void
{
var nowDateate = new Date();
var ms:Number = targetDate.getTime() - nowDate.getTime();
var sec:Number = Math.floor(ms/1000);
var min:Number = Math.floor(sec/60);
var hr:Number = Math.floor(min/60);
var day:Number = Math.floor(hr/24);
sec = sec % 60;
min = min % 60;
hr = hr % 24;
daytxt.text = day.toString();
hrtxt.text = (hr < 10) ? "0"+hr.toString() : hr.toString();
mintxt.text = (min < 10) ? "0"+min.toString() : min.toString();
sectxt.text = (sec < 10) ? "0"+sec.toString() : sec.toString();
}
and here is a screenshot of my timeline.
http://imgur.com/A6xMFx3
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Hi,
This might help you out, although I'm not sure how often you wanted the text to alternate colour
PHP Code:
var targetDate = new Date(2014,7,8,15);
addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, loop);
function loop(e:Event):void
{
var nowDate = new Date();
var ms:Number = targetDate.getTime() - nowDate.getTime();
var sec:Number = Math.floor(ms/1000);
var min:Number = Math.floor(sec/60);
var hr:Number = Math.floor(min/60);
var day:Number = Math.floor(hr/24);
sec = sec % 60;
min = min % 60;
hr = hr % 24;
daytxt.text = day.toString();
hrtxt.text = (hr < 10) ? "0" + hr.toString():hr.toString();
mintxt.text = (min < 10) ? "0" + min.toString():min.toString();
sectxt.text = (sec < 10) ? "0" + sec.toString():sec.toString();
}
addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, loop);
var Inc:Number = 0;
var TextArray:Array = new Array("sectxt","mintxt","hrtxt","daytxt");
function Colour():void
{
for (var j:Number = 0; j < TextArray.length; j++)
{
this[TextArray[j]].textColor = 0xFFFFFF;
}
this[TextArray[Inc]].textColor = 0xFF0000;
Inc++;
if (Inc >= TextArray.length)
{
Inc = 0;
}
}
setInterval(Colour,1000);
you don't need to have all those extra frames, you can have it all one one frame (layers excluded).
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Originally Posted by fruitbeard
Hi,
This might help you out, although I'm not sure how often you wanted the text to alternate colour
PHP Code:
var targetDate = new Date(2014,7,8,15);
addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, loop);
function loop(e:Event):void
{
var nowDate = new Date();
var ms:Number = targetDate.getTime() - nowDate.getTime();
var sec:Number = Math.floor(ms/1000);
var min:Number = Math.floor(sec/60);
var hr:Number = Math.floor(min/60);
var day:Number = Math.floor(hr/24);
sec = sec % 60;
min = min % 60;
hr = hr % 24;
daytxt.text = day.toString();
hrtxt.text = (hr < 10) ? "0" + hr.toString():hr.toString();
mintxt.text = (min < 10) ? "0" + min.toString():min.toString();
sectxt.text = (sec < 10) ? "0" + sec.toString():sec.toString();
}
addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, loop);
var Inc:Number = 0;
var TextArray:Array = new Array("sectxt","mintxt","hrtxt","daytxt");
function Colour():void
{
for (var j:Number = 0; j < TextArray.length; j++)
{
this[TextArray[j]].textColor = 0xFFFFFF;
}
this[TextArray[Inc]].textColor = 0xFF0000;
Inc++;
if (Inc >= TextArray.length)
{
Inc = 0;
}
}
setInterval(Colour,1000);
you don't need to have all those extra frames, you can have it all one one frame (layers excluded).
Thank you fruitbeard. This helped me IMMENSELY. I clicked on your signature line to make a donation. It's not much, but you can count on more coming in as I am sure I will run into other issues in the future. I sincerely thank you for your help!!!!
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Hi,
Thank you kindly sir, was very unexpected, I will be glad to assist you as and when I can.
Fruit
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