date countdown to a date given in .txt 1

[stalker81]

Hi!

I created a countdown movie (

http://www.2rdesign.com/help/countdown.zip

). I works nicely, but i need to pass the new date to is from an outer source. Could anyone help me out here?
Thanks!

 

[oldnewbie]

Can the source date be in milliseconds or is it in a specific format?

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[stalker81]

Hm. A you can see now the date is given in three textboxes. If I could load the three different number (month, day, hour) to the three boxes that would be the best. With a simple loadVars method or something.

I tried it, but it did not work for some strange reason. I loaded in the date numbers, but the counter just did not get is...

 

[oldnewbie]

Unexpected file format! Can't open your .fla.
You'd have a better chance of getting an answer if your .fla was in a MX only format, and zipped up.

You would have to save a copy of your MX2004 .fla, (using Save as...) and changing the Document type to MX only in the Save as... window.


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[stalker81]

Okay, I saved an mx version.

http://www.2rdesign.com/help/countdown_mx.zip

Hope you can use it to see my problem.
thanks for your time.

 

[oldnewbie]

Try this

http://odin.prohosting.com/oldnew/countdown.zip

Right-click and Save Target as...

If you can't download it, e-mail me (for address hit my handle above), and I'll mait it to you.

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[stalker81]

Thanks man! It's great. So the trick is to load the vars on the apropriat level. Thanks again man!

 

[stalker81]

Thanks again for the help. I'm trying to do one
more thing with this whole stuff. I'd like to
stop it, once the count down is done.
For eq. jump to a frame, where the whole counter
is set to zero.
I tried various ways, but could not figure it out.
Could you help me out once more?