How to end all movie clips in Flash MX

[Gosia]

I am a novice to Flash Mx. I am currently working on an interactive project using flash mx and some action script. I have several questions:

How to add a timer in to a movie?

How to control (change content of input boxes)?

How to design a button which would exit the program (movie all together)?

HELP
Gosia

[mlk]

welcome to the forums, Gosia

a) Timer: check your flash help on the getTimer function...
b) I think you assign a variable to the textbox, like theTextBoxValue and then on a button action or any event script something like theTextBoxValue = "Some Text" and it will display 'Some Text' in the text box
c) This only works in standalone player (ie you can't 'exit' a normal flash page, only close its window)


on(press,release){
fscommand("quit","");
}

[Gosia]

Thanks,

I managed to control the text in the text box and exit the movie fine. I am still struggling with the get Timer. I need the timer to be set at the beginning of the movie and after say 1 min a message would pop out saying “You have been using this program for 1 minute".

Any other suggestions?
Gosia

[scotty]

stop();
startTime = getTimer();
this.onEnterFrame = function() {
nowTime = getTimer();
if (nowTime-startTime>60000) {
timeBox.text = "You have been using this program for 1 minute";
delete this.onEnterFrame;
}
};
where "timeBox" is the instancename of your textfield.

scotty(-: