[AS2] Simple Timer issue

[Digg00]

So been working on a simple quizz game and faced an unexpected problem that neither even hours of googling nor endless usage of the search tool couldn't had helped. In the attachment there's the issue excluded. You see each time you click "Next" the old timer countdown is added to the new countdown

The issue is that I can't get the timer from running on background. Obviously missing a specific code to stop it from running but apparently can't get any of them to work on that one.

The timer has a code of

timer = 30;
countdown = function(){
timer--;
if(timer==0){
delete onEnterFrame;
clearInterval(countdownInterval);
_root.gotoAndPlay(2); // (don't mind this one)
gotoAndPlay(1);
}
}
countdownInterval = setInterval(countdown,1000);

Button has the code of

on (release) {
_root.tekstilaatikot_mc.kys_vaarin_1_mc.gotoAndSto p(12);
_root.timerii_mc.gotoAndStop(1);
_root.tekstit_mc.nextFrame();
_root.voitit_mc.gotoAndStop(2);
gotoAndPlay(2);
}

And couldn't had found the solution how to make the timer from running on background. I think it's because both the buttons and timers are covered by seperated movie clips but that's needed on the project

Thanks and sorry if this sounded stupid

[Digg00]

Solved

Being retarded and stupid. The answer was much simplier. I tried dozens of variations of clearInterval on the button but due to them being in different movieclips couldn't get it working.

It was very simple and I should had solved it much faster. It was in a need of

clearInterval(_root.timerii_mc.countdownInterval);

(Got me to wrong lead as I had the timer in the 3rd frame of timerii_mc so didn't think of that being so simple)