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Hi everyone,

I am building a small opus publication that will loop repeatly, inbetween presentations there will be a five minute gap before the presentation starts again. On the page that remains on screen it tells viewers that the presentation will start in less than five minutes, but is there anyway I can include a digital style clock that counts down from 5 minutes to zero to let viewers know exactly how much time to the start of the presentation.

Regards

V Crew

Perhaps with a bit of modification this will do for you?
viewtopic.php?t=1254&highlight=countdown

or you could try the attached .imp. What you would do is set a variable, in this case, <bra> to the number of seconds you wish your timer to work (in your case 5minutesX60seconds=300). Set the page where your timer is to the number of minutes/seconds you wish and then have it go to whereever you want pagewise.On the timer page, you have two onShow actions. The first one resets <bra> to its specified number. The second action loops until the page changes and runs a script.

It should be pretty straight forward to follow.

I think this will do what you want. It's probably not as elegant as someone else could do, but it seems to work.

An alternative solution to your clock problem can be found here

http://www.digitalgrapevine.info/viewtopic.php?t=1682

Sincere thanks to SteveH for his help.

Cheers

Graham