# New to this and having problems with countdown timer

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/new-to-this-and-having-problems-with-countdown-timer/326923>\
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**Created:** [January 23, 2012, 12:31am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/new-to-this-and-having-problems-with-countdown-timer/326923 "2012-01-23T00:31:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![jchannel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/22d042/32.png) [@jchannel](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/jchannel)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2012, 12:31am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/new-to-this-and-having-problems-with-countdown-timer/326923/1 "2012-01-23T00:31:37Z")

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I am so new to flash, I do not know what I am doing. I have not programmed since basic and fortran. I tried to download your countdown.zip and winzip states it’s not a good file. I have tried twice. I have my own gif set that I want to use for a countdown timer and so I was hoping to use your code and figure out what to do. Can anyone help me with this?