[F8] time remaining becomes score

Hiya

I want to make a scoreboard for my flash mini game but so that the time remaining becomes the score (so the quicker you do it the more points you get!).

I have created my timer as a movie clip with a dynamic textbox with the variable name timer. This is then dragged onto the main timeline and given the instance name of countdown,

The following code makes it work:

Code:

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countdown.onEnterFrame = function() {
        this.timer = int(30-(getTimer()-startTime)/1000);
        if (Number(this.timer) == 0) {
                gotoAndPlay(108);
        }
        timer = 0;
}

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Then the freeze the timer on the game over screen i have the code:

Code:

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countdown.onEnterFrame = function() {
        stop();
};

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I want to somehow put this "frozen" time into a variable which can be sent to the scoreboard. Any ideas on how I could go about doing this?

thanks a lot :)

score += timer.dynamiceTextBox.text.

heya thanks for the help!

I've tried putting a dynamic textbox onto the stage, with the variable name of timer or countdown and have played around with the code:

score += timer.dynamicTextBox.text

but it just returns the value of '0' or of 'level0.countdown'

what am i doing wrong?

score += timer.text