User Guide

216 ActionScript language elements

The following example uses an if statement to evaluate how long it takes a user to click the

submit_btninstance in a SWF file. If a user clicks the button more than 10 seconds after the

SWF file plays, the condition evaluates to

true and the message inside the curly braces ({})

appears in a text field that's created at runtime (using

createTextField()). If the user clicks

the button less than 10 seconds after the SWF file plays, the condition evaluates to

false and

a different message appears.

this.createTextField("message_txt", this.getNextHighestDepth, 0, 0, 100,

22);

message_txt.autoSize = true;

var startTime:Number = getTimer();

this.submit_btn.onRelease = function() {

var difference:Number = (getTimer() - startTime) / 1000;

if (difference > 10) {

this._parent.message_txt.text = "Not very speedy, you took "+difference+"

seconds.";

}

else {

this._parent.message_txt.text = "Very good, you hit the button in

"+difference+" seconds.";

}

};