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Help me with a countdown script
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Join Date: Apr 2002
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Hey boys and girls,
I want to put a timer on a page I coded that will count down to the day of the US Federal Elections (November 2, 2004). I think it would be cool to have it precise down to the millisecond, much like the Flash counter that Apple had on its page counting down to the release of the PowerMac G5.
Does anyone know a good script/applet that can do this? If it needs to be done in Flash (for aesthetic purposes) then I might be up a creak, but it's worth a shot.
Thanks,
Oz
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Thanks for the reply. This is a cool script, but I'm wondering if it's possible to edit it so that it counts down to the millisecond. Do you know what I could add to the script to make it do so?
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Originally posted by Ozmodiar:
Thanks for the reply. This is a cool script, but I'm wondering if it's possible to edit it so that it counts down to the millisecond. Do you know what I could add to the script to make it do so?
The browser CPU load required to display that kind of update would be bad. I did a simple test counting down from 1000 to 0 over and over (setInterval of 1 ms) and it pegs the CPU in my 900Mhz G3 and still takes longer than 1ms per update.
Here's some code you can play with:
[php]
<html>
<head>
<script language="JavaScript">
function showMilliseconds()
{
newmillivalue = document.forms[0].milliseconds.value -1;
if ( newmillivalue < 0 )
{
newmillivalue = 999;
document.forms[0].itercount.value = parseInt(document.forms[0].itercount.value) +1;
}
document.forms[0].milliseconds.value = newmillivalue;
}
</script>
</head>
<body onload="setInterval('showMilliseconds()', 1)">
<form>
Count: <input type="text" name="itercount" value="0">
<br/>
Milliseconds: <input type="text" name="milliseconds" value="0">
<br/>
</form>
</html>
[/php]
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I dunno if I would want to count to the millisecond in javascript. Would probably want to use flash or something of the sort for that.
Here is a tutorial on how to do it with flash, including milliseconds:
http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/countdown.htm
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