Help Modifying/Understanding Flash Counter

programming flash
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I’ve reluctantly agreed to try and help a friend fix a counter on one of the flash applets he hired someone to make for him. It’s AS2 and done in Flash 8.

http://www.bestondesign.com/globe-help.zip

It pulls from the current time on the system clock.
Essentially it’s counting 4 times too slow. I am awful with even reading AS let alone trying to find the equation running this.

Could anyone please explain to me what I need to edit in the AS to speed this up?

I apologize in advance for my noobness. I have not touched flash in years.

Thanks

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Is it supposed to increment once per second?

'Cos that’s what appears to be happening when I test it.

This is the script that controls the speed:
_global.setTimeout(this, “parseNumber”, 1000);

The “1000” is the frequency in milliseconds by which the parseNumber funcion is called, i.e. one second. If you want it to run 4 times faster, change the number to 250 milliseconds.

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Glos,
You are the man. Thank you.

That is exactly what I was looking for.

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My invoice is in the post :wink:

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He He. I wish this was a paid job to give you some juice :wink: