Question

So, I have this timer in 2 scenes. The timer in the 1st scene works perfectly. However, when I tried it to the 2nd scene the timer goes so fast.
I have 2 set of codes:

_root.timer = 10;
clearInterval(id);
id = setInterval (function ()
           { 
                _root.timer--;
                if(timer==0)
                {
                    gotoAndStop(65);
                }
           }, 1000); 

AND this:

timer = 10;
timer.text= timer;
countdown = function(){
            timer--;
            if(timer==0){
                         clearInterval(countdownInterval);
                         gotoAndStop(65);
                        }
                      }
countdownInterval = setInterval(countdown,1000);

I’m aware that 1000 milliseconds = 1 second. I just don’t know what causes the timer to decrease fast in the second scene. What do you think?

Answer 1

In the second scene, timer decrase 2 times faster, because there is two setInterval running, _root.timer will equal timer in two stages. So there is two functions calling each second, and it each function decrases same variable.

Solution: in second scene, rename timer variable to timer2 or timernew.