display movie time

[Huma!]

i have quick time movie in director, i want to be able to see the duration of
the movie on the screen. (in other words, a clock appears on the screen which
shows how long the movie has been running for)
i am clueless as where to start,
please help!

thanks

huma

[Mark A. Boyd]

"Huma!" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in
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> i have quick time movie in director, i want to be able to see the
> duration of the movie on the screen. (in other words, a clock appears
> on the screen which shows how long the movie has been running for)
> i am clueless as where to start,

You'll want to get the video sprite's movieTime and convert it from ticks
to HH:MM:SS. The FramesToHMS() function works well for this.


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Mark A. Boyd
Keep-On-Learnin'

[JB]

Using FramesToHMS() as previously recommended makes sense, not that the
movietime is in milliseconds (not ticks) so you want to enter 1000 for
the framerate parameter. You can use string manipulation to cut out
unneeded characters from the HH:MM:SS.ss string.