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Hello

I would like to insert a clock in a page that can be trigered by a button and stopped by another button after the child finishes the exercise.
The exercise is a drag and drop grammar exercise in which one child tries to beat the best time achieved by another child during the resolution.
I think this is possible to do with opus xe but I guess it will be only through script, but I'm not sure if there is another way of doing it. I would prefer not using script language since I have a lot of difficulty in handling it ( any good book or manual out there? )
Thanks in advance.

Hello AD,

A "count-up" timer is actually pretty easy to do, especially the way you've outlined it as a somewhat manual start and stop.

Please do a Search here on the forum... for one or more of the following: timer countdown clock ticker

Others have posted some solid hints and even sample .IMP pubs probably right on-track for what you want. I recently saw a neat one that did what you asked and displayed an emulation of an analog clock. You'll see the Attached files if you're logged in. Also, do read the complete post for those, since contributors add-to or fix the sample pubs progressively.

I just posted a sample pub over in Tutorials recently. Your search will find it. It does use scripting, but would be easy to copy its 2nd page over I'm sure.

You can create a clock in actions...just search the general Opus help for 'Clock Actions'
You can then use buttons to trigger the clock... start, stop, pause




You can also create a script clock. Create it when the first page loads, then attach the start/stop to buttons.




With the script clock, you then have to extract the minutes/seconds from the clock_var, so the actions may be an easier route??


If you need more specific help on the actions, post again and myself or someone else will help.

Sandy

Thank you, Sandy