ActionScript 2.0 :: Using Time As A Variable?
Oct 29, 2005
I've just taken and slightly modified a tutorial from actionscript.org. IT explained how to show the time in flash. I completed it and modified it to just show me the hours, minutes and seconds. I'm using it for a site I'm workin on. It was a tutorial for mx though, so I made a seperate swf an had it load into my site's mian swf using the loadMovie script. Now I want to take the time experiance and push it farther. I want to know how I can take the time from the loaded swf (which has a dynamic textbox ofcourse) and use it as a variable. I want to basically two things:
how to get the variable from a loaded swf
How to have a variable control the tint of one MC and the rotation of another.
I'm having a MC fill the whole screen and tint to represent the darkness/brightness of the day and I'm going to have a sun/moon MC rotate past the screen.
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