Clock display in a director movie

[cfinn]

Is there any way to create a clock display in a director movie? One that
updates regularly and follows the time on the computer or a website? Is this
something best done with a Java application, and has anyone done anything
similar?

Many Thanks!

[JB]

There are ready made Flash analog clocks downloadable from flashkit.com

You can a periodicly called handler update a time display, prepareFrame
or idle handler could be used.



-- the idle handler gets called a lot betweeen frames, adding a little
logic minimizes the amount of writes to the text field, you cound modify
the time string

on idle
global lastTime
if the time <> lastTime then
member("timeDisplay").text = the time
lastTime = the time
end if
end

[cfinn]

Thank you, that was perfect, i now have a clock running very smoothly in my application :-)

~Clare