Simple Countdown Timer

[FF7fan]

I just want to make a simple countdown timer, that everytime the flash movie hits the timers keyframe it counts down from 10 and then plays a sound. Is there a way to do this?

[NTD]

Hi,

Flash allows for many ways to accomplish the same task. In this case, you could use a movieclip 120 frames long(assuming your movie frame rate is 12 fps), place a number every 12 frames..... 10,9,8,etc,.... then, on the last frame of the movieclip, have a stop action and a sound on the frame.

Another method might be to use nothing but actionscript to achieve the same effect.Paste this code onto a frame and test, you will need a sound in your library set to export for actionscript with an ID name...

code:

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_root.createEmptyMovieClip("countDown", 10);

cCenterX = Stage.width/2;

cCenterY = Stage.height/2;

_root.countDown.counter._x = cCenterX;

_root.countDown.counter._x = cCenterY;

_root.countDown.createTextField("myTextField", 1, cCenterX, cCenterY, 30, 20);

_root.countDown.myTextField.background = true;

_root.countDown.myTextField.autoSize = "center";

_root.countDown.myTextField.border = true;

_root.countDown.myTextField.backgroundColor = 0x00FFCC;

count = 10;

myCountDown = function () {

	count--;

};

countInterval = setInterval(myCountDown, 1000);

this.onEnterFrame = function() {

	_root.countDown.myTextField.text = count;

	if (count == 0) {

		clearInterval(countInterval);

		_root.countDown.myTextField.text = "00";

		mySound = new Sound();

		mySound.attachSound('soundID');

		mySound.start();

	}

}

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[FF7fan]

It works now, thanks for the help.