Showing Time in Flash

Displaying Time in Flash using Actionscript

1. The Date class in Actionscript along with its various methods helps us to retrieve date and time values (Local / GMT).
2. Create three Dynamic Textboxes for displaying the hours, minutes, seconds and name their variables as ch, cm, cs respectively.
3. Write the following Actionscript code in the Actions window (F9) as given below:

var dt, timeint;

dt = new Date();
ch = dt.getHours();    
cm = dt.getMinutes();
cs = dt.getSeconds();
timeint=setInterval(timer,1000);

function timer() {
dt = new Date();
ch = dt.getHours();
cm = dt.getMinutes();
cs = dt.getSeconds();
}

4. Variables dt, timeint Flash are first declared using the keyword 'var' and any function can be defined by using the keyword 'function' followed by a function-name and the function code which can be written within the {...} as shown above.
5. The constructor new Date() is used create an instance of the Date object and assigned to the variable 'dt'.
6. The methods getHours, getMinutes, getSeconds of the Date object are used to retrieve the hours, minutes, seconds and assigned to the 3 Dynamic Textbox variables.
7. Save your work and test the Movie (Ctrl + Enter). That's it you have learnt how to create scrolling textboxes in Flash using Actionscript.

Note: GMT time can also be displayed in a similar manner by using the getUTCHours(), getUTCMinutes(), getUTCSeconds() methods of the Date object.