AS3 Flash Counter Using the Timer Class and Formatting Time in Minutes

I was asked for an AS3 Flash counter displaying the time in seconds as they go by and seconds conversion into the proper hours : minutes : seconds display format.

To count the seconds, I used AS3 Timer class and for formatting I found this formatTime function of Jeff Depascale and put together following Flash counter using the Timer class.

Here’s the flash counter displaying time in minutes and seconds.

Following is the AS3 code and I have added comments to explain:

//time in milliseconds, set it to 1000 to display seconds
var time:int = 10;

//create the timer object
var MyTimer:Timer = new Timer(time,0);

MyTimer.start();

mc.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, myCounter);

function myCounter(e:Event) {
mc.timer.text = String(formatTime(MyTimer.currentCount));
}

/*
This function formatTime was written by Jeff Depascale. Thanks Jeff!
*/

function formatTime( time:Number ):String {
var remainder:Number;
var hours:Number = time / ( 60 * 60 );
remainder = hours - (Math.floor ( hours ));
hours = Math.floor(hours);
var minutes = remainder * 60;
remainder = minutes - (Math.floor ( minutes ));
minutes = Math.floor(minutes);
var seconds = remainder * 60;
remainder = seconds - (Math.floor ( seconds ));
seconds = Math.floor(seconds);
var hString:String = hours < 10 ? "0" + hours:"" + hours;
var mString:String = minutes < 10 ? "0" + minutes:"" + minutes;
var sString:String = seconds < 10 ? "0" + seconds:"" + seconds;
if (time < 0 || isNaN(time)){ return "00:00"; } if (hours > 0) {
return hString + ":" + mString + ":" + sString;
}
else{
return mString + ":" + sString;
}
}

You can download the Counter fla file from this link

Hope that helps.

Cheers!