{"id":207,"date":"2020-02-28T09:34:21","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T09:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flashspeaksactionscript.com\/?p=207"},"modified":"2020-02-29T01:57:43","modified_gmt":"2020-02-29T01:57:43","slug":"flash-countdown-timer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashspeaksactionscript.com\/flash-countdown-timer\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash Countdown Timer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a timer in Adobe Flash that will count down the time to a given date in days, hours, minutes, and seconds. If you were looking for a great Flash tool for counting down holidays, birthdays, etc, this is the tutorial for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, this Flash countdown timer tutorial allows you to preset any day of your choice with in AS2 and AS3. Have fun!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>Create the Flash Countdown Timer in AS2<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This tutorial will go over the basics on constructing a Flash countdown timer within Actionscript 2.0.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Step 1<\/strong>: Create a dynamic text field with the string value of \u201c00:00:00:00\u2033.&nbsp;<em>Note:this is simply to get the text field to the size needed for the dynamic content.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Step 2<\/strong>: Delete the string value of text field and name the text field \u201ctime_txt\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Step 3<\/strong>: Create a new layer named \u201cactions\u201d and insert the following code in the first keyframe:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source File:<\/strong>&nbsp;REMOVED<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p> <strong>Update:<\/strong>&nbsp;Based on your feedback on this tutorial, I decided to create a hassle free CountdownTimer AS3 class that will assist in creating your very own flash countdown timer.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20131212025003\/http:\/\/flashspeaksactionscript.com\/flash-countdown-timer-in-as3-using-a-class\/\">Learn how to create a Flash Countdown in AS3 using this class.<\/a> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>\/\/onEnterFrame allows for a function to be called every tick\nthis.onEnterFrame = function()\n{\n\t\/\/Stores the current date\n\tvar today:Date = new Date();\n\t\/\/Stores the Current Year\n\tvar currentYear = today.getFullYear();\n\t\/\/Stores the Current Time\n\tvar currentTime = today.getTime();\n\t\/\/Creates and stores the target date\n\tvar targetDate:Date = new Date(currentYear,11,25);\n\tvar targetTime = targetDate.getTime();\n\t\/\/Determines how much time is left.  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