Timer

[Matteo]

If I wanted to make a timer that was accurate to the second, How should I go about doing this? What should I set the FPS to and how many frames should I make in the program. I would think 1 fps and 60 frames in the program, then at the 60th frame have a counter and when your done you can see how many seconds went by (I don't have flash on this computer atm so I can't start working on it, just trying to get the idea straight.)

~Thanks
~Matteo

 

[oldnewbie]

If your fps is 12fps, than 1 second takes 12 frames. If your fps is 25fps than 1 second takes 25 frames. But you could have a timer running on a looping 1 second movie, whatever the framerate, and it would still be accurate, in theory. Regards,

 

[billwatson]

over the net frame rates are not constant..depends to a large extent on the viewers technology so a counter using frame rates may end up being quite inaccurate.

getTimer counts in milliseconds from the system clock, is global, and will give a much more accurate reading.

 

[Matteo]

Ok getTimer seems good but I have never heard of it. And also this will not be used over the net, it is for home use.

 

[oldnewbie]

A few movies here:

http://www.flashkit.com/search.php?cat=movies&field=Description&per=10&page=1&term=timer&x=38&y=6

If the above link doesn't work for you, try typing "timer" in the search box here:

http://www.flashkit.com/movies/?s=81d7673d31992dd054a513b38eeb2e88

Regards,

 

[Matteo]

Ok tks.

 

[Matteo]

Ok, How does the getTimer() fuction work? Now when I am doing the program, I wanted to get a value of the number of clicks on the button divided by the current time elasped since the program started. Can I do this with the getTimer() fuction?

 

[BigBadDave]

Like this:

var butPress = 0;

on (press) {
butPress++;
}

averageClick = butPress / getTimer (); Regards
David Byng

http://www.byngdesigns.co.uk

davidbyng@hotmail.com

 

[billwatson]

daves code is spot on but will return a very small number as getTimer counts in milliseconds.
if you multiply butpress by 60,000 this would give you clicks per minute which might be more meaningful.

 

[Matteo]

AHHHH... My code was similar to Daves, but I was getting a very small number and didn't know why. It must of been because it was in milliseconds and I need to multiply it by 60,000. Thanks for info.

 

[Matteo]

Ok, I wanted to know if there was anyway better to display my value I get for clicks per Seconds. Right now, if I click 5 times in 10 seconds. It comes up 05. Now I was wondering if there was a way to display this as .5. Any ideas?

 

[billwatson]

post the code ......only way to spot whats going on