How would you change an integer variable per second

Question

Im new to action script, and I'm working on a game were your health variable will add 1 hp automatically every second if the health variable is not equal to 100. How would you do that?

Answer 1

If you are using AS3, you can use the Timer class.  You can specify it to activate every second and use an event listener.event handler function to add to the value if it is less than 100.
var healthTimer:Timer = new Timer(1000);
function addHealth(evt.TimerEvent):void {
     if(health < 100) health += 1;
healthTimer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, addHealth);
healthTimer.start();
If you are using AS2, look into setInterval().