[F8] Add a stop start to a timer

[PONYACK]

Hi,

I am using this great code made by Kenneth Andersson.

I have been trying to add a stop start button.

Any ideas would be great.

Thanks

//First we need a dynamic textfield with instance name "theText", check.
//Then we set the total number of minutes. I picked 64 to reduce the
//result-view-waiting-time. 119 would just be... boring.
total = 45;
//Calculate the var total and update the textfield.
this.onEnterFrame = function() {
	minutes = Math.floor(total/60);
	seconds = total%60;
	theText.text = "0"+minutes+":"+seconds;
	if (seconds<=9) {
		theText.text = "0"+minutes+":"+"0"+seconds;
	}
};
//Function for the countdown, can be changed to total++ if you want to
//count "into the future" or something. Well I dunno.
//clearInterval = When minutes and seconds is 00:00 it stops.
counter = function () {
	total--;
	if (minutes == 0 & seconds == 1) {
		clearInterval(setIt);
	}
	if (total == 30) {
			warning.text="Warning, times almost up!";
			gotoAndPlay(_currentframe+1);
					}
		if (total == 00) {
			gotoAndPlay(_currentframe+1)
		}
};
//Then we start an interval with the counter function, 1000 is milliseconds á 1 sec.
setIt = setInterval(this, "counter", 1000);
stop();

[Federmania87]

Quickly looking at the code just make the start button clear the interval and make the stop button set it again.

[PONYACK]

Thanks for the reply.

I changed this line to read.

setIt = setInterval(counter,  1000);

Once i did that and updated my start button to refelect the change, the timer start stop worked.



This is what I have been working on. The stop button works. But I can't get the start button to work...

stop_btn.onRelease = function() {
	clearInterval(setIt);
}

start_btn.onRelease = function() {
	setIt = setInterval(this,"counter", 1000);
	
}