Comments on: Tips & Tricks 11: Customizable Flash Analogue Clock AS3

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 09:36:20 +0000

Using a timer creates a delay between the flash loading and the clock displaying the correct time, personally if the application isnt a game or something that requires lots of processing then I dont see the harm in the clock being updated every frame.

Though another fix for this would be to call clockHandler(null); when starting the timer.

By: Hugh

Hugh — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:32:29 +0000

The new code with timer will cause the second hand to ramdomly jump 2 seconds. Any one know why?

By: joyoge designers' bookmark

joyoge designers' bookmark — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 16:24:44 +0000

nice tut, thanks for the tip..

By: Jloa

Jloa — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:11:31 +0000

U r welcome ^_^

By: Flashuser

Flashuser — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 14:51:59 +0000

i updated the script…thanks for share

By: Jloa

Jloa — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 14:18:11 +0000

var timer:Timer = new Timer(1000);
timer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, clockHandler);
timer.start();

function clockHandler(event:TimerEvent)
{

// set hour
var time = new Date();
var hourHand = time.getHours();
var minuteHand = time.getMinutes();
var secondHand = time.getSeconds();

hourHand_.rotation = 30 * hourHand + minuteHand / 2;
minuteHand_.rotation = 6 * minuteHand;
secondHand_.rotation = 6 * secondHand;
}

my code is 31 times optimized than yrs (if the fps is set to 31) ^_^

By: Jloa

Jloa — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 14:13:12 +0000

2 author >> this.addEventListener(“enterFrame”,clockHandler);
I’d adviced u to use Timer class usage with a 1000 ms timeout.
For example: i have a 31 fps movie, which means yr script will update the timing 31 timer per second = no need 4 that.