Hi everyone!

I developed a board game that has a timer in flash. This timer shows how much time they have left before the game stops.

The timer is working now, like it should. The only thing is that I would like a suprise element at a random moment

that will give the players an assignment. It should appear like a pop up screen and the timer have to stop playing

for a moment. At least, until someone press the spacebar. Then the pop up dissapears and the timer continues.

Can someone help me with that?

import flash.utils.Timer;
import flash.events.TimerEvent;
import flash.utils.setTimeout;
import flash.media.SoundChannel;
import flash.utils.*;
import flash.system.ImageDecodingPolicy;
import flash.display.BitmapData;


var customPanel:CustomPanel = new CustomPanel();

var timer:Timer = new Timer(30,0);
var timer2:Timer = new Timer(Math.random() * 1200000,1);
var myTimer:Timer = new Timer(1200000,1);


var secCntr:int = 0;
var minCntr:int = 40;
var hourCntr:int = 23;
var currentTime:String;


var soundRequest:URLRequest = new URLRequest(sounds/Flash Clock.mp3);
var mySound:Sound = new Sound();
var soundChannel1:SoundChannel = new SoundChannel();


mySound.load(soundRequest);
soundChannel1 = mySound.play();


timer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, setTime);
timer2.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, surprise);
stage.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN, handleKeyDown);


timer.start();
timer2.start();


function surprise(e:TimerEvent):void{
trace(Surprise!);
this.addChild(new CustomPanel());
}


function handleKeyDown(e:KeyboardEvent):void {
    if(e.keyCode == Keyboard.SPACE){
                        if(this.contains(customPanel)){
              this.removeChild(customPanel);
        }      

          }


}


function setTime(e:TimerEvent){
    secCntr++;
    if(secCntr == 60){
        minCntr++;
        secCntr = 0;
    }
    if(minCntr == 60){
          hourCntr++;
          minCntr = 0;
          }

          if (hourCntr >= 24){
          hourCntr = 0;}


    if(secCntr < 10){
    currentTime = String(hourCntr) + : + String(minCntr) + :0 + String(secCntr);    
    }
    else{
    currentTime = String(hourCntr) + : + String(minCntr) + : + String(secCntr);
    }


    countdown_txt.text = currentTime
}

I'm not quite sure what I should add to make that happen.

I hope someone can help me!

Greets,

Anne-Loes