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Subject: RE: FLASH: actionscript delay timer
From: Matt Perkins
Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 21:35:12 +0100

yeah, there should be a away around this ... anyone know of actionscript
enhancements in flash 5?
god knows it needs it.

> ::: Matt Perkins
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-----Original Message-----
From: owneratchinwag [dot] com [owneratchinwag [dot] com]On">mailto:owneratchinwag [dot] com]On Behalf Of Darren
Critchley
Sent: Monday, May 01, 2000 4:08 PM
To: flasheratchinwag [dot] com
Subject: Re: FLASH: actionscript delay timer


Matt Perkins wrote:

> given that delaytime = 500 this sould delay for 500 miliseconds right?
> but flash errors out saying that a loop executed more than 200,000 times
...
> what's wrong?
>
> Set Variable: "now" = GetTimer
> Set Variable: "then" = now + delaytime
> Loop While (now <= then)
> Set Variable: "now" = GetTimer
> End Loop
>

Flash thinks this is an endless loop. Fix it by doing this:

Frame1 = Set Variable: "now" = GetTimer

Frame2 = Set Variable: "then" = now + delaytime
Frame3 = If now <= then goto and play Frame2
else goto and play Frame4
end if
Frame4= continue with movie


Darren.



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