# Countdown Timer question **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [August 15, 2004, 12:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/countdown-timer-question/119479 "2004-08-15T12:56:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![freeskier46](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c6cbf5/32.png) [@freeskier46](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/freeskier46)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2004, 12:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/countdown-timer-question/119479/1 "2004-08-15T12:56:34Z")
Greetings- I’ve attempted to do the countdown tutorial and can’t get it to work, the numbers just scroll endlessly. But I digress…if I may ask a dumb question: Is the tutorial compatible with MX2004 in its current form? Some other posts seem to suggest that may be a possibility. Is the action script pertaining to the frame or is assigned to the ‘counter’ mc? Aside from my inability to get the tutorial to work – I had a larger question re: the countdown. How would I show multiple countdowns at once? (6 of them, counting down to 6 separate future dates) I’m putting together a site for a local ski club and wanted to show a countdown for each trip. 2 of the trips are in 2004 & the other 4 are in 2005. Again, I was trying to use the imaging version that the tutorial describes (sounded pretty cool), but perhaps using dynamic text would be easier?? Thanks for any input, greatly appreciated. ---
**Author:** ![freeskier46](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c6cbf5/32.png) [@freeskier46](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/freeskier46)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2004, 10:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/countdown-timer-question/119479/2 "2004-08-17T22:32:10Z")
Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions? I’m sure it’s something minor that I’m overlooking. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![wizard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a87d85/32.png) [@wizard](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/wizard)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2004, 10:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/countdown-timer-question/119479/3 "2004-08-17T22:37:30Z")
I don’t know what it could be… if you just copied & pasted the code you should have no problems there. Check your Instance Names, one of them might be wrong. ---
**Author:** ![freeskier46](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c6cbf5/32.png) [@freeskier46](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/freeskier46)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2004, 11:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/countdown-timer-question/119479/4 "2004-08-17T23:20:50Z")
Thanks Wizard!! I somehow forgot to label my mc instance. I’m still not sure how to go about putting multiple countdowns on the same stage. I would like six separate countdowns, but it only is recognizing one. I’m still pretty much a noob when it comes to AS. What about creating each timer in its own .swf? Would that work? Thanks again for any input. ---
**Author:** ![wizard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a87d85/32.png) [@wizard](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/wizard)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2004, 11:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/countdown-timer-question/119479/5 "2004-08-17T23:23:20Z")
That would work (multi. swf), but you could use the same movie clip just change the Instance Name and the date in the ActionScript, this should work too. ---
**Author:** ![freeskier46](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c6cbf5/32.png) [@freeskier46](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/freeskier46)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2004, 11:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/countdown-timer-question/119479/6 "2004-08-17T23:31:01Z")
Wizard, I really appreciate your input, thanks for taking the time. I think I stumbled upon a solution, I renamed each mc instance (counter0, counter1,…) then in the AS renamed the variables that are dependent on each counter, namely the ‘eventdate’ & ‘eventmillisecs’ by adding a trailing 0,1, etc. Since each timer needs the same currentDate, I left that alone. Cool. ---
**Author:** ![wizard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a87d85/32.png) [@wizard](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/wizard)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2004, 11:40pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/countdown-timer-question/119479/7 "2004-08-17T23:40:11Z")
> [@freeskier46](#): > > Wizard, > I really appreciate your input, thanks for taking the time. I think I stumbled upon a solution, I renamed each mc instance (counter0, counter1,…) then in the AS renamed the variables that are dependent on each counter, namely the ‘eventdate’ & ‘eventmillisecs’ by adding a trailing 0,1, etc. Since each timer needs the same currentDate, I left that alone. Cool. Nicely done. :thumb: