creating a CLOCK in Flash 5

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Couldn't be easier, Flash does it all for you......

Create dynamic text-fields for each component you want to show (ie: hours, mins, secs, time, date, whatever) and give them each a variable name.

Right click the first frame of the timeline and insert actions thus:
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[color green]//This line sets up the 'object', necessary to associate the variables.[/color]
davdesigndate = new Date();
[color green]//This line associates the dynamic text-field containing the /:hours variable with the date object and requests the 'hours'. You can work the rest out from this.[/color]
/:hours = davdesigndate.gethours();
/:mins = davdesigndate.getMinutes();
/:secs = davdesigndate.getSeconds();
/:fulldate = new Date( year, month, date, hour, min, sec, ms );
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Right-click again on the first frame and select 'insert-frame' from the drop down menu, this ensures thst the 'seconds' are updated.

In the Actions pop-up within Flash you can find the Date functions under OBJECTS>DATE>.

An example resides at:

www.pinkzeppelin.com/FAQ/250-605/clockF5.html
www.pinkzeppelin.com/FAQ/250-605/clockF5.zip

To get the dots, just create a movie-clip with aplha tweening, for the flashing to represent one second, just insert frames between the tweens equivalent to the frame rate of the movie. ie: in the example, the distance between tweens is 20 becasue the movie fps is 20

dave

revision: 21-05-01 file links amended
revision: 05-10-01 file links amended