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It's not that hard.

It's just some properties..


Like:

var seconds:Number;
var minutes:Number;
var hours:Number;

if(seconds>60){
seconds = 0;
minutes += 1;
}else{
seconds++;
}
if(minutes>60){
minutes = 0;
hours += 1;
}


Something like that..

Just have them as text fields, and plug it in!


If you need anymore help with AS, just contact me!


-Figtherlegend

Thanks. I don't need minutes and hours...I'll just keep it all in seconds.

If I wanted to make a simple timer that counts how long you played for, and then at the end it shows how long you played for. How do you make that?

There is a function 'getTimer()' in the flash.utils package that can tell you how many milliseconds have elapsed since the start of the program. I think this function is also in Actionscript 2, but I'm not 100% positive on that.

http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/langref/flash/utils/package.html#getTimer()

I think a step counter is the easiest way to think about it.

var seconds:Number = 0;
var frameR:Number = 30; //or whatever
var frameCounter:Number = 0;

onEnterFrame = function() {
frameCounter++;
if(frameCounter == frameR) {
frameCounter = 0;
seconds++;
trace(seconds);
}
}

Steps is by far the easiest, but if you looking for accuracy, it won't help much as .swfs never play the exact frame rate as is specified in the .fla. As far as I can remember, there are ways to get exact times, but by the time they return something, they become inaccurate. As long as you're staying above 100ms intervals and precision is not dire, there's no better way to go than just a setp counter as john suggested.