# Countdown Timer Issues \[Error Message In Flash Player\]

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/countdown-timer-issues-error-message-in-flash-player/236104
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [August 17, 2007, 4:46am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/countdown-timer-issues-error-message-in-flash-player/236104 "2007-08-17T04:46:03Z")
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### Author: ![joshspazjosh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@joshspazjosh](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/joshspazjosh)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2007, 4:46am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/countdown-timer-issues-error-message-in-flash-player/236104/1 "2007-08-17T04:46:03Z")

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Hey guys, love the site. I tried to make a countdown timer off of this site:

[http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/countdown.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/countdown.htm)

It works great except for the fact that every five seconds this error message pops up whe I try to run the exported SWF file in Flash Player:

"A script in this movie is causing Adobe Flash Player 9 to run slowly. If it continues to run, your computer may become unresponsive.

Do you want to abort this script? (Yes/No)"

When I press “Yes” the countdown stops working.

Here’s the deal. I’m pretty adept at Flash and its graphical tools but I hardly know any Actionscript; I could barely figure out how to set the date correctly. I need to use this countdown for a scene in a film I’m making that we’re shooting in a couple of days. The only way that my version of the countdown is different than the sample is its size: I used pretty big graphics because I want it to look good full-screen on my 20 inch iMac (resolution 1680 x 1050), so I outputted the letters to about that resolution. I downscaled the letters so that the movie is about the same size as the sample but the problem still persists.

Any common-language help or guidance for an ActionScript novice would be greatly appreciated. 😃