need countdown timer for game

@mit317667020y6y 

 

as3 or canvas/html5?

what exactly are you looking for?

i just created a text box, named it time_txt, embedded fonts, created a frame label at frame 15 called "lose" and then pasted the above code into frame 1.
when i exported the movie, the text box counted down from 10 to -10, and then the timer stopped on -10 and the movie went to frame 15.
what exactly is the problem?

i'm still trying to understand why you changed your if statement to if (time==-10)...!

the code above works for me, so i think your problem lies in what other code you have in your project.

depending on what you mean by "reset the timer":

the clearInterval should turn off the interval(which otherwise updates the timer periodically)

the line var seconds:Number = 10; resets the timer to 10...

c

yes that would work too Nicwinta. i'm confused however about why your original code doesn't work spudless? once i added the extra equal sign to that line, it worked fine for me... see below..

by the way, i doubt it's counting up - more likely i think it's in the negative continuing to count down and you haven't embedded hyphen in your font.

spudless,

I am very new to flash scripting but got the following code to work (I think)!

var seconds:Number = 10;
var time:Number = seconds;
function countDown() {
if (time==0) {
gotoAndStop("lose");
clearInterval(counter);
}
time_txt.text = time;
time = --seconds;
}
counter = setInterval(countDown, 1000);

looks like you've got things pretty well under control.
you didn't say what the symptoms of the problem with your code is, but one thing that needs fixing is the following line:

if(time=0){

should be:

if(time==0){

a subtle but important difference!
craig