Quick Tip: Create a Minimalistic SandClock Using ActionScript 3

Quick Tip: Create a Minimalistic SandClock Using ActionScript 3:

Read through the easy steps in this Quick Tip to create a Minimalistic SandClock with ActionScript.

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Final Result Preview

Let’s take a look at the final result we will be working towards:

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Step 1: Brief Overview

Using Arrays and a premade square MovieClip we will create a SandClock that will be animated by a Timer.

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Step 2: Set Up Your Flash File

Launch Flash and create a new Flash Document, set the stage size to 400x250px and the frame rate to 24fps.

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Step 3: Interface

This is the interface we’ll be using, the squares in the image are actually one single blue square MovieClip exported for use with ActionScript, with a linkage name of Square. A simple button named startButton will be used to build and start the clock.

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Step 4: ActionScript

Create a new ActionScript Class (Cmd+N), save the file as Main.as and write the following lines. Read through the comments in the code in order to fully understand the class behavior[...]