Heh, well, the truth was I was making it for Flash,
but I was figuring out the script in Director b/c
Director is a heck of a lot easier to script and
test in, even with the new syntax in Flash 5.
The only thing I can do to hasten the process,
is instead of making three duplicate sets of
functions in a three tier if..then..else if
statement, I simply do the function once,
but change the variable name dynamically
inside the functions.
Thanks again for all the help and advice.
-StevenSacks
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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of Colin Holgate
> Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 9:05 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: <lingo-l> Time computation based on frame - Solved
>
>
> >Thanks to everyone who helped.
> >Here is the solution. I'm not sure if it can get
> >anymore succinct or elegant, but it works.
> >
>
>
> It was hard to tell from your earlier message exactly what format you
> want the time to be in, otherwise I was going to suggest this before.
> Sorry if you spent a lot of time I could have saved....
>
> There's a lingo function to do what you wanted:
>
>
> on putTime cFrame,tFrames
> put "Total =" && framesToHMS(tFrames,10,false,true)
> put "Elapse =" && framesToHMS(cFrame,10,false,true)
> put "Remain =" && framesToHMS(tFrames-cFrame,10,false,true)
> end
>
> I left out the "-" you put into your version, because I think of time
> remaining as being a positive amount. Also, once you get past the end
> (which may never happen, but just imagine it) you would have two "-"
> in a row.
>
> Meanwhile, back at the function, this is the format:
>
> frameToHMS(number of frames, frame rate per second, drop frames,
> fractional frames)
>
> The number of frames is obvious, the frame rate is 10 in your case
> but could have been past as a parameter. Drop frames relates to NTSC
> timing, which doesn't affect you, and fractional frames lets you
> return the number either as a decimal of a second, or as a frame
> value.
>
> There is the opposite direction too, to convert time into frames.
> It's HMSToFrames(), and has the same four parameters.
>
>
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