Action Script Help

[Xposure]

Hello, I was asked to fix a couple things in a Flash Movie for a friends client. However, one of the fixes deals with the action script and I just don't know enough about that yet ... so if anyone can help I would appreciate it. Here is the problem ...

The scene has a clock on it ... set to 0:00 when the scene starts. The text states that the test takes two minutes, however, when the clock starts its count it only goes to the 1:00 minute mark. The question was to see how I can alter the below action script to make the counter count to 2 minutes instead of 1 minute.

The script:

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
myCount = Number(_parent.count);
if (myCount<=9) {
_parent.myTime = String("00:0"+myCount);
} else if (myCount>=60) {
_parent.myTime = String("01:00");
} else {
_parent.myTime = String("00:"+myCount);
}
_parent.count = myCount+2;
}

I have tried changing the "60" to "120", but that did not work ... I also changed the "01:00" to "02:00" ... but all that did was after the count up to 60 it listed 2 minutes instead of 1 minute.

-Scott

[Curly Brace]

Try this one:

onClipEvent (load) {
    current_minute = 0;
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
    myCount = Number(_parent.count);
    if (myCount<=9) {
        _parent.myTime = String("0"+cur_minute+":0"+myCount);
    } else {
        _parent.myTime = String("0"+cur_minute+":"+myCount);
    }
    if (myCount == 60) {
        myCount = 0;
        cur_minute++;
    }
    _parent.count = myCount+2;
}

[Xposure]

Curly thanks for the response ... I plugged in what you sent and it started the count, but when it hit 0:60 it stopped there. Instead of counting the full 120 seconds with the final screen showing 2 minutes. Make sense?

Any other ideas?

Thanks again

[Curly Brace]

Could you please show the code that handles _parent.count variable?

[Xposure]

I have searched for this variable, but can not find it in the MC ... I will continue to look.

Thanks

[Curly Brace]

And that would be perfect if you could just attach the whole fla here.

[Xposure]

Curly .. I looked to use the attach option, but it would not take the FLA ... is there another place to attach the FLA?

Thanks

I realized ... I need to zip it ... guess that makes sense

[Xposure]

well i have zipped the fla and tried to use the attach feature ... however, when i try to upload it comes back and tells me that there is no data in the file. doesn't make sense to me, because if i unzip the file it is there. any suggestions?

[Cota]

_parent.count is not going to show anything over 60 seconds. The code Curly Brace gave you counts up to 60 seconds then changes the current minute to 1 and sets seconds back to 0. So it will never go over 60.

[Xposure]

Thanks for all the help yesterday ... I have pulled the part of the Flash Movie which needs the change. Hopefully this will "help you, help me".

Again, in the movie there is a counter which starts at 00:00 and counts to 01:00 minute. I need the movie to actually count from 00:00 to 02:00.

thanks again