Webdigity Webmaster Forums - Beautifying the end of countdown timer

seimiya

Tue 19 January 2010, 03:45 am GMT +0100

Hi, :)
I'm Seimiya, I'm new to this community and I found here through yahoo search. I hope this community can help solve my queries.

1st of all, I created a countdown timer before the new year eve. And when new year arrived, I saw my timer goes to negative (-) sign.
E.e - Days, - Hrs, - Mins, - Sec - > - 00 days, - 08 hrs, - 12 mins, - 43 secs. Which I don't quite like it.

So what my problem now is the (-) sign, because I don't know how to make the timer stop when the day is arrived. So I need help from anyone here in this comunnity. I humbly request please do teach me, you can add me to msn (maxim_seimiya@hotmail.com) and leave some message like
"Hi, my name is ... and I'm willing to help you ... blah!" :-[

These are the things I hope you guys can teach me:
1) what's the script to remove the (-) sign.
2) what's the script to stop the timer when the day arrived.
3) Is it possible that I can make a picture show up when the countdown date arrived just like animated gif that will change the instance? If can, the how do I make a new picture layer to show up?

Thank you and I'm looking forward for replies ^_^

Nikolas

Tue 19 January 2010, 09:14 am GMT +0100

To get some help, first you need to post here the code you used to create the countdown timer you have at the moment.

seimiya

Tue 19 January 2010, 10:07 pm GMT +0100

ok ^_^ here is my scripts, Thanks for helping.

Quote

this.onEnterFrame = function() {

var today:Date = new Date();
var currentYear = today.getFullYear();
var currentTime = today.getTime();

var targetDate:Date = new Date(2010,1,1);
var targetTime = targetDate.getTime();

var timeLeft = targetTime - currentTime;

var sec = Math.floor(timeLeft/1000);
var min = Math.floor(sec/60);
var hrs = Math.floor(min/60);
var days = Math.floor(hrs/24);
sec = string(sec % 60);
if (sec.length < 2){
sec = "0" + sec;
}
min = string(min % 60);
if (min.length < 2){
min = "0" + min;
}
hrs = string(hrs % 24);
if (hrs.length < 2){
hrs = "0" + hrs;
}
days = string(days);

var counter:String = days + ":" + hrs + ":" + min + ":" + sec;
timer_txt.text = counter;

}