# Making a "time is up" bar

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/making-a-time-is-up-bar/29192>\
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**Created:** [August 23, 2003, 7:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/making-a-time-is-up-bar/29192 "2003-08-23T19:26:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![visionen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/9de053/32.png) [@visionen](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/visionen)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2003, 7:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/making-a-time-is-up-bar/29192/1 "2003-08-23T19:26:15Z")

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Hi  
I´m thinking of doing a small bar, looking lika a standard pre loader that will decrease until the time is up. Anyway I just wonder if anyone has any ideas how this could be done. I´m quite familiar with as programming but

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2003, 8:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/making-a-time-is-up-bar/29192/2 "2003-08-23T20:03:46Z")

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You want to use a bar on a countdown timer?

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2003, 9:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/making-a-time-is-up-bar/29192/3 "2003-08-23T21:02:26Z")

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> I´m quite familiar with as programming but

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You can take this preloader tut:

> **[kirupa.com - Percentage Preloader with Load Bar](https://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/percentagepreloader.htm)**
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> Find out how you can create a useful preloader with a load bar.

and just use the bar idea out of it. Have a bar with the registration point on the side it will collapse to, then whatever you’re counting down, apply that value to the bar’s \_width property.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2003, 9:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/making-a-time-is-up-bar/29192/4 "2003-08-23T21:49:15Z")

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Something like this?\<br\>[swf=http://www.geocities.com/claudiodj/timer.swf width=100 heigth=70][/swf]

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2003, 10:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/making-a-time-is-up-bar/29192/5 "2003-08-23T22:44:01Z")

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Yes claudio exactly 😉  
If you could give me a hint how to do it I would be very greatful, and yes freddy I know how to do a preloader.

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**Post date:** [August 23, 2003, 11:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/making-a-time-is-up-bar/29192/6 "2003-08-23T23:01:27Z")

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Here