Actionscript 3 simple countdown

// for this example I just want to count down 30 Seconds
var remainingSeconds:int = 30;

// this is the function that the setInterval function calls
function countDownSeconds() {

// not a second off of the current number of seconds
remainingSeconds--;

// if we have run out of seconds do this
if (remainingSeconds == 0) {

trace(“DONE”);
clearInterval(myInterval);

} else {

trace(“tic”);

}

}

// this is the line that calls the specified function
// in this case “countDownSeconds” and it calls it every
// 1000 milliseconds in this case.

var myInterval = setInterval(countDownSeconds, 1000);