# Creating a Jackpot Application

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-a-jackpot-application/211527>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [January 2, 2007, 6:41pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-a-jackpot-application/211527 "2007-01-02T18:41:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![dewey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/919ad9/32.png) [@dewey](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/dewey)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2007, 6:41pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-a-jackpot-application/211527/1 "2007-01-02T18:41:25Z")

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Hey everyone. I’ve searched the forums, and google, but can’t get anywhere with this latest task I’ve been assigned. I really don’t have any idea where to start…

Basically, I need to build some sort of Jackpot counter. At the moment, what the powers that be want is to show a cash amount, and then it will do some fancy animation to a new dollar amount. These amounts would be from two days ago to yeserday. This helps protect showing how many users are currently playing (why this matters I don’t know).

I was thinking it would be easy enough to pass two values into flash and then just have an animation go… but i don’t know if I would be able to get the total to stop properly (this is why I am posting).

However, what I would like to do, and I am trying to convince the powers to do is to have a jackpot counter much like the ones at [pogo.com](http://pogo.com), where the thing is constantly increasing, but I have no idea where to start with something like that.

If anyone has anything they could give me to start off, it would be much appreciated. Thank you,

–d