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actionscript-3flashtimer
Jen
Jen

Reputation: 17

Multiple timers help! FLASH as3

I'm making a quiz game, there's 5 questions involved. I made a timer for the 1st question so when the user hasnt answered the question within 10secs they'll go to question 2 (another frame). Question 1 timer works fine, how do i get question 2 to do the exactly the same as question 1? I tried adding the same code into question 2 however it gives me an error.
Thanks

My code: 

stop();

var count:Number = 10;
var myTimer:Timer=new Timer(1000,2);
myTimer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, countdown);
myTimer.start();

function countdown(event:TimerEvent):void {
count00.text=String((count)-myTimer.currentCount); 

if(count00.text == "0"){
gotoAndStop(85);
}
}


myTimer.stop();
myTimer.removeEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, countdown);

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1427

Answers (1)

M4tchB0X3r
M4tchB0X3r

Reputation: 1531

First off, you shouldnt be doing this over multible frames. But thats a different discussion.

You should stop your timer, remove the listener and move to next a frame in an onComplete event.

stop();

var count:Number = 10;
var myTimer:Timer=new Timer(1000,count);// this should be the total count
myTimer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, countdown);
myTimer.addEventListener(TimeEvent.TIMER_COMPLETE, timerDone);
myTimer.start();

function countdown(event:TimerEvent):void {
    count00.text=String((count)-event.currentTarget.currentCount);//get currentCount from event 
}

function timerDone(e:TimerEvent):void{
    trace("Timer finishing!");
    myTimer.stop();
    myTimer.removeEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, countdown);
    gotoAndStop(85);
}

Btw. you are setting the repeatCount of the timer to 2, new Timer(1000,2); this will give you 2 seconds countdown, not much time for a question ;) it should be count

Also there musst be a dynamic textField with the instance name count00 in the same frame (not layer) as the code!!

Please always include relevant error messages in the question!

Upvotes: 1

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