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I have tried a Clock / Timer suggestion from the forum here and it worked well when testing in Opus, i.e. 00:00 (minutes:seconds) counting time taken to complete activity.

However, the publication was created using the Opus Flex option as I need to export the file as a Flash (SWF) file. The clock/time doesn't work when the export is done as it was created using a script.

Any ideas of how I can incorporate a timer (minutes:seconds) in my publication without using a script so that it would work when exporting to Flash?

I'm using Opus Pro 9.02.

Thanks

Use the ticker action to count in seconds and convert to minutes / hours.

Mack

Thanks for the suggestion.

I got it to count, but I'm not very good at programming. How would I get it to display as two digits for seconds and later as mm:ss?

Sorry to be a pain!
I want the timer to stop (and preserve the time taken) when the user has completed the activity.
What's the command to stop the ticker?
Appreciate your help.

There is no single stop command.

You have to use a little bit of logic code....



Simply change the value of the myTickerSwitch variable to false or 0 to stop the myTickerVariable incrementing.

mack

Thanks for your help and suggestion. I managed to 'freeze' the time taken by using another variable to copy the value of the original timer as the game ended. Seems to work fine in the Opus preview and in the published Flex file. I'll keep your suggestion in mind for next time.

Althpough I'm still looking for a way to display the ticker time as 'mm:ss' (minutes / seconds - two digits for each) that will still work after publishing as a Flex file.

Thank you.