f I trace new Date().toUTCString() I get something like: Fri Aug 12 07:14:06 2011 UTC.perfect. If I trace new Date().getTime() I get some long negative number which is decreasing as I continue to trace it. This is totally unexpected.
View 10 Repliescheck if a negative number is less than another negative number. The if condition logic seems to be in order as far as i can tell but it doesent work for some reason :
Code:
public function minuscheck(testnumber:int):void
{
if (testnumber < -1)
[code]....
Am using Date.getTime to sort playlists by modified date. First am converting a saved "display date" (string) to a new date object like so:
[Code]...
The bottom two playlists are the most recently modified, yet the getTime() value suggests that the date is BEFORE 1970, despite Date.toDateString() correctly evaluating the year as 2010. If the date apparently knows the fullYear value is 2010, how the hell is it concluding that's before 1970?!?! Is this a bug or have I monumentally blundered somewhere obvious....?
I came accross another issue regarding the accuracy between the getTimer and date.getTime functions.I use this simple script (AS2)
[Code]...
What happens if you let this simple app running is that the trace will show that the difference between the getTimer and date.getTime results slowly increases.I would assume some inaccuracy, but not one that would slowly increase during the lifetime of the application. The reason I want to compare the two values is that I want to see if someone is tampering with the application speed with a program such as Cheat Engine. And I noticed the date.getTime function isn't affected by that program, but the getTimer function is.
is there a way i can cancel the number from returning the same number.
As an example if return dont return 1 again...
numb = Math.floor(Math.random() * 4) ;
how to turn a variable number from positive to negetive using AS2? eg:
Code:
myVar1 = 40;
//use code to change to negetive number
myVar1 = -40;
I need to check if a number is negative and if so, trace "true" and if not "false".
View 2 RepliesI'm working on a AS3 project where users will decide whether a random number is whole number or not.There are three boxes (box1, box2, box3), which will display random numbers. Under each box there are two check buttons (for example: bt1 and bt2).There are also two boxes counting correct and incorrect answers (correct1 and correct2). There is a button generating random numbers again (bt_2).The negative random numbers are not recognized by my conditional. Or I don't know how to handle conditional with negative numbers. Positive or negative numbers display the correct check mark? Here is my AS3
//counters
var i:uint=0; // correct answersvar u:uint=0; // incorrect answers
// making check mark invisibleco1.visible=false; // correctco2.visible=false; [code].....
I'm working on a AS3 project where users will decide whether a random number is whole number or not.
There are three boxes (box1, box2, box3), which will display random numbers. Under each box there are two check buttons (for example: bt1 and bt2).
There are also two boxes counting correct and incorrect answers (correct1 and correct2). There is a button generating random numbers again (bt_2).[code]...
Is there a way to convert a negative number into a positive using actionscript?
View 5 RepliesI have a stack of 3 Mcs, 1, 2 and 3, one over the other, at the same layer.
I want to make an action, that makes the top level MCs, when clicked, to go under the other 2 MCs, and so on.
Is it possible? I tried to make it, but discovered that it's not possible to define negative depth for a MC.
how or why it is happening??
example:
var myText:TLFTextField = new TLFTextField();
//lots of initialization to myText.
var myFormat:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
[Code]....
The last statement is the one with the trouble
How do you generate a Number that is randomly postive or negative?
View 3 RepliesHow would one produce a random number, ranged from say, -100 to 100?
View 3 RepliesIs there a direct way how to turn a negative number to positive using bitwise operations in Actionscript 3? I just think I've read somewhere that it is possible and faster than using Math.abs() or multiplying by -1. Or am I wrong and it was a dream after day long learning about bytes and bitwise operations?
What I saw was that bitwise NOT almost does the trick:
// outputs: 449
trace( ~(-450) );
If anyone find this question and is interested - in 5 million iterations ~(x) + 1 is 50% faster than Math.abs(x).
I'm trying to track one of my characters as it moves across my stage, however it seems that samuraiChar's (my character) x position has a much higher decimal rounding system in place rounding to maybe 8 decimals where as the over object that I'm trying to track with it has only a 2 d.p rounding system. Can someone explain to me why this is and how I can fix it, also I may be wrong I'm not 100% sure if this is the problem.
[Code]...
I have a table which containt a date, a number for the number of weeks per period, and a year. the user then enters a date and I can calculate the period number from this. But I'd like to do it the other way too: Entering a period number and get the start and end date of the period from this. Unfortunately, I can't seem to get the right logic.
EDIT: options[0] being the start date from the database and options[1] the number of weeks for one period.
This is the function I already have and which works:
private function dateToPeriod(date:Date):Number
{
var d = new Date(options[0]);
[Code]....
let's say my start date it 12/12/2009, then passing 12/12/2009 to this function would return 1 since it's the first "period" from this date (in week number).
What I want is to make a periodToDate function.
Is there a way to get the number of days for a given month supplied to Date?
Example :
var month:Number;
var year:Number;
...... month and year changed by code .....
var aDate: Date = new Date(year, month);
How to get the number of days in "month"?
I need the counter to count up to a set date and end on a set number. The date would be 12/31/07 and the number would be 1,000,000. Just like the current counter I would like it to reference to the users cmoputer clock.
View 5 RepliesI was woundering if anyone has ever run into the problem when they are useing the getTime(); command but wanted it to stay in a specific time zone no matter what zone the user is browsing in. So basically I want it to display central time, but if a user browsing my site is in Pacific time, I want the time to display in central, even if he/she tries to change the the clock on his/her computer. So I think the only other way to do this would get the time from another source? I tried getUTCTime(); but that time still changes if the user changes the clock on his/her computer. I was thinking if I could do something like getTime(); and inside the () , mabey I could put my IP address?
View 4 RepliesI'm trying to build a functionality into a Flash app, which would calculate the number of days that have passed since a defined date.
The idea is that a start date would be defined in the script (in whatever format) and the application would count and return the number of days since that date. According to that number the app would determine the availability of a set of links listed in the style of a calendar. I'm gonna be using a date variable from my servers to determine the current date.
How should I proceed with this? How should the varying number of days in months be handled? What about leap year?
got a problem with Date.getTime() my code like:
private var now:Date = new Date();
private function getStamp():void{
trace(now.getTime());
[code].....
Do you know any way to compare a date to a range of date using the Date class in as2.
For example i want to know a given day (11-12-2009) is among the start and end date of a given range (11-01-2009 to 11-20-2009).
I have a countdown to a specific date. Mine is 31st of december 2009. But I want a number related to the countdown. So it starts with lets say 8000.Now I have the number related to the amount of days. 62 is 8000, 61 is 7500, 60 is 7000... etc. When you enter the page it checks the countdown date and relates a starting number, every 3 sec. the number goes decreases. I want to add an action to every countdown. I know there must be a better way of coding this...
The best would be that the number decreases realtime, so everytime you go to the page number changes... Does anybody know a good way of doing this or provide a related tutorial link ? I really tried to find an example, but every countdown tutorial is related to time only....
Code:
onEnterFrame = function() {
var today:Date = new Date();
var currentYear = today.getFullYear();
[code]....
I have a XML file with a few concert dates. In my flash/AS3 file, I would like to show only the up coming event, relative to current date. Like this:
Event 01: 30-05-2010
Event 02: 02-06-2010
Event 03: 05-06-2010
Today is 28-05-2010, so I need to list Event 01. On 01-06-2010 I need to list Event 02. I have the basic AS3 code for listing the XML working, but I'm having trouble filtering the result.
I'm trying build a simple band site using flash and as2. All I want to have is a page listing shows that sorts them according to date and also when the show date has passed drops that entry from view.I can do this easily enough with a database and php but want to learn how to do it in actionscript. Here is what I currently have, shows load from the xml file into a simple textbox:
Code:
scrollBar.target = shows_txt;
showsXML = new XML();
[code]....
I'm using flash CS4 and actionscript 2.0. I have a situation where I need to locate and check the date of an external file (either .exe or .swf) and return that date string to a variable in flash. I then need to display that date to a piece of dynamic text within the flash file. Is there a function within action script that will check and retrieve the file date of an external file.
View 4 RepliesI am instantiating a new Date object using the below values.
var thisDate:Date = new Date(2011, 12, 2, 9, 30); But when I did a trace, I got
Mon Jan 2 09:30:00 GMT+0800 2012.Why is the date wrong?
my date of string like (2009-12-03 21:05:00) date with time . so i used to store var newdate:Date=new Date(Date.parse(startdate)); but shows some errors.and also i tried to split string(date) used date function likevar datenumber:Number= (new Date(Date.parse(startdate))).getDate();
View 1 RepliesDoes anyone know how to get actionscript to render a null date value '000:00:00T00:00:00'? I am calling a web service that expects date fields in the SOAP xml. I need some of these dates to serialize as null and I can't see how to produce null. The closest value I can get is '1899-11-30T00:00:00Z'. Below is the code I am using:
[Code]...