Timer in Flash

Category: Advance

Actionscript: 2.0

  In this tutorial you will learn how to create a Timer In Adobe Flash. Timer is very useful for time delayed functions. It is also used in Flash Games.

1- Open up Macromedia Flash and create a new file.

2- Create a ‘Dynamic text field’ (In the Properties select Dynamic Text). Write in the text field properties in the ‘instance name’ as ‘txt_timer’.

3- Now create a new layer and select the first frame of the created layer.

3- While the frame is still selected open up the Actions Panel (F9) and write the actions as follows:

timer = 10;

txt_timer.text = timer;

count = function () {

                timer--;

                txt_timer.text = timer;

                if (timer == 0) {

                                txt_timer.text = "Timer Ended";

                                clearInterval(countInterval);

                }

};

countInterval = setInterval(count, 1000);

4- All done. Hit Ctrl+Enter to check the movie.

Description:

//This will set the time period of the timer in seconds

 timer = 10;

//This will output the timer on the text field you have created

txt_timer.text = timer;

//This is the main count function which will decrease the timer count

//This will be triggered after every 1000 milliseconds i.e. after 1 second as we have set this time in the setInterval function

count = function () {

                timer--;

                txt_timer.text = timer;

                if (timer == 0) {

                                txt_timer.text = "Timer Ended";

                                clearInterval(countInterval);

                }

};

countInterval = setInterval(count, 1000);