Economy-x-Talk - Sample Scripts

Countdown Timer 3

Display time on the card by placing a field onto the card (or background if you want it on more than one cards). Then, all you would have to do is place the time remaining onto that field. You may want to modify the IDLE handler to go to a card when the timeRemains(50)<1; I use <1 to prevent some kinds of tinkering that might set theTime to -1 or something.

This script has been slightly adjusted to allow for interrupting the countdown.

-- MP0werd
on startTimer
  global theTime
  --call startTimer when you want to start the timer
  put the seconds into theTime
end startTimer

function timeRemains totaltime
  global theTime
  --get timeRemains(totaltime) when you want to find the amount of time left
  put the seconds into timeNow
  put timeNow-theTime into elapsed
  put totaltime-elapsed into timeLeft
  return timeLeft
end timeRemains

function endTimer
  global theTime
  -- get endTimer() to stop the timer and return the number of seconds remaining
  return timeRemains(50)
  -- change 50 to the number of seconds this test should take
  put "" into thetime
end endTimer

-- original idle handler
-- on idle
-- global theTime
-- if theTime<>"" then put timeRemains(50) into cd fld "MyTotallyCoolField"
-- -- change 50 to the number of seconds this test should take
-- -- Change myTotallyCoolField to whatever your field is
-- end idle

on idle
  global theTime
  if theTime<>"" then
    if timeRemains(10) <1 then
      put "" into theTime
      play "Boing"
      put 0 into cd fld "MyTotallyCoolField"
    else
      put timeRemains(10) into cd fld "MyTotallyCoolField"
    end if
  end if
end idle

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