I have a digital timer counting down in the background of a website I'm working on. It's strictly an aesthetic thing and doesn't really serve any real purpose otherwise. I just want it to look like a working timer. Is there a way I can do this with actionscript so that I don't have to actually keyframe the numbers changing? I'm actually more of an animation guy and would usually just animate it timing down but that's probably more work than it's worth.
thanks
The example below displays countdown from 2 minutes to zero.
import flash.display.Sprite;
import flash.events.TimerEvent;
import flash.text.TextField;
import flash.text.TextFormat;
import flash.utils.Timer;
var countDownDisplay:TextField;
var timer:Timer;
var date:Date;
init();
function init():void
{
countDownDisplay = new TextField();
countDownDisplay.defaultTextFormat = new TextFormat("Arial", 120, 0x008040);
countDownDisplay.multiline = countDownDisplay.wordWrap = false;
countDownDisplay.border = true;
countDownDisplay.autoSize = "left";
countDownDisplay.x = countDownDisplay.y = 20;
countDownDisplay.text = "00:00 ";
addChild(countDownDisplay);
date = new Date(1000 * 120);
timer = new Timer(500);
timer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, onTimer);
timer.start();
}
function onTimer(e:TimerEvent):void
{
date.time -= timer.delay;
countDownDisplay.text = date.toUTCString().match(/\d\d:\d\d\s/)[0];
if (date.time <= 0)
{
timer.stop();
}
}
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