[F8] time remaining becomes score

[squiggles121]

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:

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

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

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

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