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Hi,

Problem solved.

I had been trying to figure out how to measure the time (if possible in milliseconds) in a Flex pub quiz from when the user is shown a word until when they press the space bar (if the word applies).

Absent availability of the clock feature in Flex pubs, wasn't sure how to measure and store this.

Came across a posting on the forum about using a ticker. Initially, couldn't get it to work in my project. More experimenting: finally got it to work in my project.

So, no need for any help.

Kind Regards,

Hi Josie,

I decided not to develop the project in Flex, but instead used a Pro pub. The Pro pub had more flexibility for setting up the timing needed in this specific project. I also finally did not need this type of timing, since I learned that it was not required for this project. Sorry I can't be of more help.

Kind Regards,

so long ago I've forgotten how I did this, but clock features are certainly usable in Flex...
http://macsnapper.com/flash/clock.htm

Hi Mac,

Very nice design!

Flex has enormous capability.

If you ever come across the IMP it would be interesting to see the actions/scripting that were used to achieve this.

Kind Regards,

Hi
I put the hour minute and second hands in frames stacked above each other called (oddly enough) hours, minutes seconds.
I used this script to set the starting rotation angle of each frame according to current system time, e.g. hours.Rotate(hourangle,0.0)

var myDate = new Date()
var currHour = myDate.getHours()
var currMins = myDate.getMinutes()
var currSecs = myDate.getSeconds()
minangle=currMins*6
secangle=currSecs*60
if (currHour > 12)
{currHour = currHour-12
}
currHour = currHour+(currMins/60)
hourangle=currHour*30
hours.Rotate(hourangle,0.0)
minutes.Rotate(minangle,0.0)
seconds.Rotate(secangle,0.0)

each frame was set by an on show action to rotate once each minute, hour or 12 hours, as appropriate, so they are not continuously reading the system time.

There's a lot of animation action in all the other objects- check out your CPU meter while you watch the pub running!
cheers

(The bugs on the homepage http://www.macsnapper.com are also made in Opus of course- actions, not script.)

Hi Mac,

Thanks for this script.

Kind Regards,