Countdown not working in flash

[HYPERMATTER]

I have a counter that counts down in a game. In normal testing it works. When opening a web browser the timer is zeroed from the beginning. Any ideas?

[Jeff]

Can you upload an MFA so we can identify exactly whats not working in the flash runtime?

There are a couple different ways to do this type of counter/timer and I don't want to assume how your doing it.

Then I am sure it can get corrected pretty quickly.

[HYPERMATTER]

Here you are. Try playing normally and with SWF.

[HYPERMATTER]

Any updates ?

[Jeff]

Not really.

Its going to be a little bit the bug will be investigated first and a fix produced and tested.

So if you need to do this right now you might have to switch to a counter and countdown via the events and not use the timer.

[HYPERMATTER]

Well, I'm new to MMF. Just purchased it 5 days ago. Can you elaborate more on the counter method?

[Jeff]

Put a counter on the screen

Start of frame set the counter to the value you want

Make an event -- Every second reduce the counter by 1

Make another event -- Test for the counter to be = to 0

Downside of this is it will only count the seconds -- Hopefully Francois can look into the other timer to see why its not working right.

[RickyRombo]

Couldn't he also use the Every 00:02 seconds (for 20 milliseconds) for more precision?

HYPERMATTER, I would do:

* Every 00:02 seconds
- Add 0.02 to counter

* Counter - x <= 0 //X being the amount of seconds you want to wait
+ Only one action when event loops
- Do stuff

[Jeff]

Sure and if he wants to display the partial seconds he will need to do a bit of event work.

[HYPERMATTER]

This is great guys. Thanks for the help it worked. Although i found another bug. Text counters get cropped from below when exported to flash. You have to make the enclosing icon area wider from below thave it appear complete.